Benefits of running apache as a service?

Question

I've just installed XAMPP and just wondering what are the benefits of running Apache as a service?

Answer 1

One of the benefits is that when installed as a service is that you can limit the privileges (directories read/write access, network access, this means better security of course) of the account that runs it (the default is the LocalSystem account on Windows, you can find more about it here).

And as admin pointed out, you can also keep the service running without you being logged in all the time.