Can't install memcached 1.4.5 as a service on Windows

Question

Last night someone told me about memcached. It seems something I can really use to reduce loading times. So today I wanted to download the latest version 1.4.5 for Windows. I found a precompiled version and wanted to use that. However as of version 1.4.5 the -d parameter for Windows has been dropped? And I can't install it as a service.

I tried to install it via SC, and that worked, but then when i tried to start it there came an error message that:

The service is not responding to the control function.

I don't really know what to do now. Can I still use this on Windows as a non-service, or should I get the much older version 1.2.6?

Answer 1

Found this thread for you, it may help:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/eu/windowsazuredevelopment/thread/a185e766-41f5-402c-8519-48242d478d00