How to install a service on windows 7 without Visual Studio?

Question

Install a windows service: there is a util with Visual Studio: InstallUtil.exe. If I have a service MyService.exe and want to install it on a windows 7 without Visual Studio on it, how can I install it?

Answer 1

One way is to use sc.exe, which is part of OS. Example:

sc create **ServiceName** start= auto binPath= "c:\mydir\myService.exe"

where binPath is exe file containing your service.

if you don't want start type = automatic then you can use net start and net stop command on command line of windows to start and stop service respectively.