There are some advantages on running STAF as a Windows service. Common reason being that the STAF functionality is available even without user logged into the system. Configuring STAF to run as a service needs an auxiliary application, like srvany.exe. This file is part of Windows Resource Kit. Due to licensing restrictions I cannot attach the file here but it should not be big of a problem as you can download the resource kit from Microsoft for free. Do a google using the keywords "Windows Resource kit" and start from there. The filename of the installer normally is rktools.exe. Once downloaded, install the software look for srvany.exe and instsrv.exe. You can copy this files somewhere so that you can use it other machines. See below for the steps for configuring STAF to run as a service: 1) Copy instsrv.exe and srvany.exe into C:\Windows\System32 (actually $windir\system32 ). 2) In Windows console ( Start->Run "cmd.exe"), change to directory C:\Windows\Syst
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