There are many alternatives to FireDaemon for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Windows alternative 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 FireDaemon and five of them are free and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Windows alternatives to FireDaemon are WinSW, Shawl, Run as Service and Daemon Master.
nssm 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.
Shawl 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...
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.
Daemon Master is a software which makes it possible to create and manage a Windows-service from any program. (Alpha)
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