Publisher Description
FireDaemon lets you install and run any native Win32/64-bit application or script as a Windows service. Among the key features is easy configuration via GUI or XML, service monitoring, low memory footprint, fault tolerance...
Categories: SERVICE, SERVICES, INSTALL, NONSTOP, NON-STOP, BOOT, BOOTUP, BOOT-UP, START, STARTUP, START-UP, RESTART, RE-START, EXECUTE, SOFTWARE, NT, 2K, XP, 2K3, LONGHORN, VISTA, SERVICES, WINDOWS NT, WINDOWS 2000, WINDOWS XP, WINDOWS 2003, .NET, WIN2K, WINXP, WINNT, SRVRANY, SRVANY, SVRANY
System Requirements
Pentium III 500Mhz, 128MB RAM, 10GB HDD
What's New
Installer
- Seamless upgrade from v1.6 and v1.7 to v1.8
- Installer completely rebuilt and now 2.7MB (!!) smaller
- Uninstaller optionally stops/uninstalls FireDaemon services
- Custom install options now actually do something!
- Digitally signed
Executables
- All executables and DLLs digitally signed
- DLL redirection used to ensure correct runtime DLLs are used
- Microsoft Winqual integration
GUI
- Replacement of toolbar icons with simpler (and hopefully more intuitive) ones
- synchronisation fixes when using FireDaemon via GUI and command line simultanously
- drag and drop FireDaemon configurations to/from the GUI and your desktop (neat eh?)
- ability to select multiple FireDaemon services to start/stop/delete
Command Line
- Two new environment variables available for scripting: FIREDAEMON and FIREDAEMON_HOME
- Ability to enumerate FireDaemon services (--list)
- Ability to export FireDaemon services to XML (--export)
Functionality (the meat!)
- Verified on 32-bit and 64-bit systems
- Support for system and service specific environment variables just about everywhere
- Support for mapped drives and UNC paths
- Improved scheduling
- Dialog popup control (see the new Dialogs tab)
- Console Applications now shutdown gracefully (if Console Application is checked)
- Interact with Desktop code when run as a Domain or Local user now bullet proof
- Improvements to GUI Graceful Shutdown feature
- Enhanced debug logging
- Empty environment variables now permitted
- Services can be stopped/started via bit twiddling in the registry
- Numerous fixes and robustness improvements
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