How to make a program a system service?

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Tim Coleman

I need to make VNC a system service so that it cannot be
closed down. Or i need to know how to keep the program
active but hide it from view on the taskbar. Does anyone
know how to do either of these? Any information would be a
great help. Thank You,

Tim Coleman
 
Tim,

There should be an option to install VNC as a service under the
"Administrative Tasks" subfolder in the start menu entry for VNC. If you are
missing this option you can run the following;

"C:\Program Files\ORL\VNC\WinVNC.exe" -install

This will configure VNC as a service. Make sure you set the default registry
settings, obviously the logged on user has different settings to the user
the service is running under.

To hide the systray icon, make sure VNC is installed as a service then
remove the following regkey

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run\"(path to WinVNC.exe)
-servicehelper"

I know this works in NT, so I'd imagine It'd work fine in 2000.
 
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