[geeks] windows service without outside resources

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 09:45:59 CST 2008


Eric Railine wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Brian Dunbar wrote:
>>  > Is there any way to create a Windows service that runs an .exe without
>>  > using the utilities from the resource kit?  OS is Windows Server 2000.
> <snip>
>>  Try the "sc" command.
> 
> Unfortunately for the OP, Windows 2000 does not include sc in the base
> install - it's part of the RK.  W2K3 added sc (and a number of other
> tools) to the base installation.

That sucks.  It comes with XP too.

Peace...  Sridhar



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