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AlwaysUp Wins “Best Windows Utility” Award from Windows IT Pro Magazine

As AlwaysUp enters its 10th year of running any application as a Windows Service, we are excited to announce that readers of the popular Windows IT Pro Magazine have recognized it as a Best Windows Utility for 2013! AlwaysUp has … Continue reading

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Trouble running Google Drive 1.9 with AlwaysUp on Windows XP & Server 2003

Over the past couple of years, several of our customers have been using AlwaysUp to run Google Drive as a Windows Service. But this past week, two customers, one on Windows XP and another running Windows Server 2003, reported that … Continue reading

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Video: Start Dropbox whenever your PC boots

For our customers using Dropbox, the helpful folks at HowTech have created a step by step video tutorial showing how easy it is to download and install AlwaysUp, then use it to setup Dropbox as a Windows Service: You can … Continue reading

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AlwaysUp 8.5: Run in Session at Boot, Switch To Session 0, and more

After months of testing, Version 8.5 of AlwaysUp, our award-winning application that runs any application as a Windows Service, is now available for download. It is a free upgrade for customers who purchased version 7 or 8 (after February 2010) … Continue reading

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AlwaysUp works with Windows 8 & Windows Server 2012

We are pleased to report that AlwaysUp is working very well with both Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012! Here is a screenshot of AlwaysUp running Notepad as a service on Windows 8: The only problem we encountered was with … Continue reading

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