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Professional Software for Windows Services / 24×7 OperationEssential Windows Services: EventLog / Windows Event LogIn this article… What is the Windows Event Log (EventLog) service? What happens if I stop EventLog? Is it OK to disable the Windows Event Log service? Questions? Problems? What is the Windows Event Log (EventLog) service? The EventLog service … Continue reading Posted in Windows Services Tagged essential-windows-services, event-viewer, eventlog, windows-services 1 Comment Q&A: How do I Change the Name of my Windows Service?We manage a third-party package that installs a Windows Service with a generic name. I keep having to explain what it means to my team/customers, which can be a pain. How do I change the name of the service to … Continue reading Posted in Windows Services Tagged display-name, powershell, regedit, registry, sc.exe, service-name, set-service, windows-services Leave a comment Q&A: How do I Restart a Windows Service when an Event is Reported?We have a service that should restart whenever another service writes a particular event to the Event Viewer. How can I do that? — Russell Hi Russell. To create that workflow, you can introduce an “Event Trigger” with the Windows … Continue reading Posted in Windows Services Tagged event-viewer, q&a, service-pilot, task-scheduler, windows-services Leave a comment Q&A: Why Doesn’t AlwaysUp Restart my Application?My company uses AlwaysUp to run 4 applications on our lab server. Every few weeks, one of the applications stops running and I have to log in and restart it. Why doesn’t AlwaysUp automatically restart it? Here is what I … Continue reading Posted in AlwaysUp Tagged alwaysup, q&a, service-protector, troubleshooter, windows-service-auditor, windows-services Leave a comment Q&A: Why doesn’t Srvany Close my Application when I Stop the Service?We use Srvany to run our Java application as a service. It starts fine but when we stop the service our Java application does not close. We have to kill the java.exe process in Task Manager. That’s not supposed to … Continue reading Posted in Srvany Tagged alwaysup, java, q&a, service-wrapper, srvany, windows-services Leave a comment |
