Launcher Service Alternatives
Launcher Service is described as 'Lets you run any program as a Windows Service' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are nine alternatives to Launcher Service for Windows. The best Launcher Service alternative is NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Launcher Service are Always Up, Shawl, Run as Service and WinSW.
- 9 NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
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.
- - NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager is the most popular Windows alternative to Launcher Service.
- - NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Launcher Service.
NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager Features
DiscontinuedLast release is from 2014, and last pre-release is from 2017, but it can still be downloaded from the official website.
AlwaysUp is the true set-it-and-forget-it way to run your mission-critical Windows application 24/7, unattended, starting it at boot and monitoring it to ensure that it is always running, even if it crashes, hangs, or fails.
- - Always Up is the most popular commercial alternative to Launcher Service.
Always Up Features
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...
Shawl Features
- 8 Run as Service alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
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.
winsw - A wrapper executable that can be used to host any executable as an Windows service, in a liberal license
WinSW Features
FireDaemon runs any application program executable or script as a Windows service when your computer starts up restarting it the application crashes or fails.
FireDaemon Features
- 7 Turbo Service Manager alternatives
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
TSM 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.
Turbo Service Manager Features
- 7 Application as Service alternatives
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
Application as Service is an advanced system tool which lets you run any application as Windows Service. You can easily configure Application as Service using its intuitive GUI interface or command line configurator directly from your software.
Application as Service Features
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- 9 Daemon Master alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
Daemon Master is a software which makes it possible to create and manage a Windows-service from any program. (Alpha)
Daemon Master Features