WinSW Reviews and details

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• 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

• Running Dart Back-End Application as Service on Windows

  No idea about RunAsService, but I too have a Dart executable running as a service and I am using WinSW and it runs without issue. Source: almost 2 years ago

• How can I create a Windows service from an .exe?

  If the program can't run directly as a service itself, you need a wrapper. Back in the day a program called NSSM was popular for this, but it's been unmaintained for many years so now you should use WinSW which is MIT-licensed, modern, actively maintained and easy to use. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Running apps as services: Is there a standard?

  We use https://github.com/winsw/winsw without any problems for years. Source: about 2 years ago

• PowerShell to notify for new files added to a folder

  I posted a tangentially related post where I mentioned nssm, and apparently this is the new and actually maintained nssm: https://github.com/winsw/winsw. Source: over 2 years ago

• Regulated lab computers domain joined, program running in one user context. Different user needs access.

  I knew about https://github.com/winsw/winsw for making EXE's a service, but it doesn't present a GUI. It looks like if their informational bullet points are accurate this may be exactly what I need. Thanks so much! I will test and report back. Source: about 3 years ago

• [trigger warning] Solution in search of a problem

  You should use this instead of the old and dead NSSM: https://github.com/winsw/winsw. Source: about 3 years ago