Software Alternatives & Reviews

Run as Service VS Application as Service

Compare Run as Service VS Application as Service and see what are their differences

Run as Service logo Run as Service

Run your application as a windows service

Application as Service logo Application as Service

If you’re like most Windows users, you have lots of great little utilities that run when you start Windows.
  • Run as Service Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-04-23
  • Application as Service Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-10-13

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Run as Service and Application as Service)
Command Line Tools
70 70%
30% 30
CRM
70 70%
30% 30
Monitoring Tools
70 70%
30% 30
Data Dashboard
50 50%
50% 50

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Run as Service seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 2 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Run as Service mentions (2)

  • PCVR Oculus without the application, will also save yourself 10GB disk space.
    Now pop over to the internet and download this runasservice move this file once downloaded to c:\ root and run it from there, restart your computer, open CMD as admin and type "RunAsService install OVRServiceLauncher". Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Run without login
    Unless Mullvad can be installed and started as a service, you'd need windows to login. I use Linux so I'm not 100% sure if Mullvad has an 'install as service' option for windows or not, but a quick google search looks like it's unlikely. Doesn't mean it cannot be done though, you can use programs like RunAsService to accomplish this fairly easily. Source: over 2 years ago

Application as Service mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Application as Service yet. Tracking of Application as Service recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Run as Service and Application as Service, you can also consider the following products

Always Up - Run as a Service: AlwaysUp installs any Windows 2019/10/2016/8/2012/7/2008 GUI application as a Windows Service, starting it at boot and monitoring it to ensure that it is always running, 24/7, even if it crashes, hangs, or fails.

WinSW - WinSW is an executable binary, which can be used to wrap and manage a custom process as a Windows...

FireDaemon - Create run manage monitor schedule and control Windows server services. Run any EXE Java PHP Python Ruby application program or script as FireDaemon Windows service.

Shawl - Shawl can run arbitrary programs as Windows services without any fuss

Daemon Master - Daemon Master is a software which makes it possible to create and manage a Windows-service from any...

Winserv - Winserv is an utility that can create an NT service that runs any application.