Exe To Windows Service

How to convert  an exe to a service?

How to create user defined function in windows?

How to create a PACS windows Service Using dcmtk storescp.exe ?

Steps

1.       Create a Service with your desired name

2.       Associate your  service to an exe in the registry

3.       Enjoy.

STEP 1:

i.                     Files required to create a windows service Instsrv.exe and Srvany.exe

ii.                   Download the files to Create a Service with your desired service name

Click here to download

iii.                  Paste the contents to a folder. Eg: C:\resourcetoolkit

iv.                 Open your cmd as an administrator

v.                   Location of the Instrv.exe  ServiceNameToBeCreated  Location of the Srvany.exe

(eg: C:\resourcetoolkit\Instsrv.exe MyDesiredServiceName C:\resourcetoolkit\Srvany.exe)

(eg: C:\resourcetoolkit\Instsrv.exe dcmtkpacs C:\resourcetoolkit\Srvany.exe)

vi.                 Now the Service has been created( check at services.msc)

STEP 2:

i.                     Open Run

ii.                   Type regedit (to  open registry editor)

iii.                  Navigate to that Service To Our Exe mapping location 

                HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<my service>

  

                         

iv.                 Create a New Key with the Name Parameters

v.                   Create a New String value inside that Parameters Folder

vi.                 Give the String value the name or rename it as Application (data type REG_SZ)

      vii.                Right click to modify that String Application Created

viii.              Give the location of the .exe  in the value data of Application

a.        Exe without parameters (eg.)

D:\dcmtk\bin\notepad.exe

b.      Exe with parameters as (eg.)

 D:\dcmtk\bin\storescp.exe -aet STORESCP  -su "" -fe “.dcm”  -od  F:\dcmtkpacsstorage 104

ix.                 That’s it

STEP 3

i.                     You have converted a exe to service successfully

ii.                   Have a Tea.