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WinSW logo WinSW

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

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.
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    2023-08-06
  • Application as Service Landing page
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    2022-10-13

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to WinSW and Application as Service)

WinSW

Application as Service

Monitoring Tools
75 75%
Monitoring Tools
25% 25
Command Line Tools
74 74%
Command Line Tools
26% 26
CRM
73 73%
CRM
27% 27
Data Dashboard
50 50%
Data Dashboard
50% 50

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, WinSW seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 11 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.

WinSW mentions (11)

  • Best way to track changes to an AD Attribute?
    And then set that up as a windows service with WinSw. Source: 12 months ago
  • Which user to use for custom Windows services?
    I am using Windows Service Wrapper to convert some net programs (tor, frp, etc.) into autostart background services. It seems I can choose which user to use when launch these custom services. Coming from a Linux background, I am a little bit confused and overwhelmed by the Windows account and permission systems. I am wondering what's the best practice? Use Local System (probably not, it has very high privileges)?... Source: over 1 year ago
  • How we've approached reliability & cost savings for our strapped SaaS
    We use a third party library (winsw) to package our exe as a windows-serice. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Launch script FIRST at startup
    It's been a while since I don't do anything similar, but one of the most popular is NSSM (the Non-Sucking Service Manager) and another open and free alternative would be WinSW (Windows Service Wrapper). Source: over 1 year ago
  • Ensuring a stable bullet proof backend. How?
    There are projects which wrap an existing exe file and handle the service stuff for you, for example winsw or DaemonMaster. Another option is to write the service yourself, there's a Go package for that: https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/sys/windows/svc. Source: over 1 year ago
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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 WinSW 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.

Run as Service - Run your application as a windows service

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

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.

Turbo Service Manager - TSM is a very small tool to configure your services. Features: Save/Load state in XML.

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

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