Professional Software for Windows Services / 24×7 OperationWondering if Your Legacy Desktop Application Will Work as a Windows Service? Answer These 3 Questions to Find OutDoes your old (but important) desktop application need to run all the time? Should it start immediately after a reboot, even when no one is there to log on and kick it off? If so, you should consider installing your … Continue reading Posted in Windows Services Tagged interactive-services, legacy-app, session-0-isolation, windows-services Leave a comment How to Use VNC to Remotely Access Session 0 (with Keyboard and Mouse!)Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 contain a curious problem affecting interactive windows services. When you switch to Session 0, you cannot use the keyboard and mouse. This frustrating flaw makes it impossible to interact with any window displayed in … Continue reading Posted in Windows Services Tagged alwaysup, interactive-services, rdp, session-0-isolation, tightvnc, vnc, windows-services 3 Comments How do I Prevent the Interactive Services Detection Window from Constantly Coming Up?Why do I see the “Interactive Services Detection” window? The Interactive Services Detection (ISD) window appears whenever a Windows Service running on your computer is showing a window or prompt in Session 0 — a “background desktop” created when your … Continue reading Posted in AlwaysUp Tagged alwaysup, interactive-services, isds, q&a, session-0-isolation, ui0detect, windows-services 1 Comment When did my Windows Service Start?Here are four ways to determine when your windows service last started. Solution #1: Search the Windows Event Logs with PowerShell The Windows Event Logs hold a wealth of information about your computer’s activities. Indeed, a new record is added … Continue reading Posted in Windows Services Tagged event-viewer, powershell, task-manager, uptime, windows-services 11 Comments Turbocharge your Applications Running as Windows Services with AlwaysUpRight now your computer is probably running over a hundred programs! And with just a handful of CPUs available — certainly not enough to dedicate a whole CPU to each process — Windows has to perform some wizardry to give … Continue reading Posted in AlwaysUp Tagged alwaysup, feature-spotlight, performance, windows-services Leave a comment |