Professional Software for Windows Services / 24×7 OperationQ&A: How Do I Restore Access Rights to My Windows Service?I have installed Service Security Editor and accidentally DENY one particular service for all users, including local administrator on my laptop. Now I am not able to start the service although I have tried to open from Service Security Editor. … Continue reading Essential Windows Services: PowerIn this article… What is the Power service? Is it safe to disable the Power service? The “Stop” button is disabled. How can I stop the Power service? What will happen if I kill the Power service’s process? The Power … Continue reading Posted in Windows Services Tagged essential-windows-services, power-service, windows-services 1 Comment Q&A: How do I allow Non-Admins to Start/Stop/Restart my AlwaysUp Windows Services?I’m wanting to know what permissions a user is required to have in order to stop and start AlwaysUp services. Is there a way to grant access to specific users as I don’t want to have to give them full … Continue reading Posted in AlwaysUp Tagged alwaysup, q&a, security, service-security-editor, subinacl, windows-services Leave a comment Q&A: How Do I Give my Windows Service More Time to Stop During Shutdown?One of our file ingestion services can take a while to finish all pending database updates and exit cleanly. Sometimes when we reboot the server, Windows doesn’t wait for the service to finish, and we end up with database corruption, … Continue reading Q&A: Can my Legacy Application Read Network Drives when Run as a Service?I am evaluating AlwaysUp. I have a legacy application which must run as a local user. I can get it to run as a service using AlwaysUp. The application works with parameters. These point to a domain folder (eg. \\MyServer\Data1\). … Continue reading |