Free Always Up Alternatives
The best free alternative to Always Up is NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked eight alternatives to Always Up and six of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Always Up are Shawl, Run as Service, WinSW and Daemon Master.
- Paid • Proprietary
21 likes9 NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager alternativesnssm is a service helper which doesn't suck. srvany and other service helper programs suck because they don't handle failure of the application running as a service. If you use such a program you may see a service listed as started when in fact the application has died.
DiscontinuedLast release is from 2014, and last pre-release is from 2017, but it can still be downloaded from the official website.
NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager VS Always Up
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3 likes7 Shawl alternativesShawl is a wrapper for running arbitrary programs as Windows services, written in Rust. It handles the Windows service API for you so that your program only needs to respond to ctrl-C/SIGINT. If you're creating a project that needs to run as a service, simply bundle Shawl...
Shawl VS Always Up
Is Shawl a good alternative to Always Up?- 1 like8 Run as Service alternatives
This tool requires that .NET Framework 2.0 be already installed on your computer. If you do not have .NET Framework 2.0 this tool will display a message and not run. You probably already have the .NET Framework 2.
Run as Service VS Always Up
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2 likes7 WinSW alternativeswinsw - A wrapper executable that can be used to host any executable as an Windows service, in a liberal license
WinSW VS Always Up
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2 likes9 Daemon Master alternativesDaemon Master is a software which makes it possible to create and manage a Windows-service from any program. (Alpha)
Daemon Master VS Always Up
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2 likes7 Turbo Service Manager alternativesTSM is a very small tool to configure your services.
Features:
Save/Load state in XML. Enable/Disable/Startup/Manual/Stop/Pause/Resume in multiple selected services at once with one key press. Group by State or by Startup type. Shows parent and child services. Win32/Kernel serv.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
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- Windows
Turbo Service Manager Features
Turbo Service Manager VS Always Up
Is this a good alternative to Always Up?Comments about Turbo Service Manager as an Alternative to Always Up
TSM is only a service manager, it is not capable to configure an application to run as a service which is the main purpose of AlwaysUp
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Comments about NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager as an Alternative to Always Up
NSSM doesn't have a GUI, it's command-line only but very easy to use. The only allows you to install any executable as a Windows service and to start/stop/configure/remove any Windows service (even those not installed by NSSM). Everything else is left up to the Windows Service manager. Simple but sufficient.
Little file; Easy to use; One command in the admin prompt using the command line guide from the website and everything works great. You just need to store this one file on a place because it will be "in use" when the PC starts.