Technical FAQs
Find the answers to your most frequently asked FireDaemon product questions... along with a few Windows questions as well.
Sometimes when running a program, you need to make sure a port is open to external or internal traffic. While programs that do not accept traffic do no...
Wed, 7 Sep, 2016 at 12:14 AM
FireDaemon Pro makes it easy to start or stop a given Windows service on a schedule. To do so, take the following steps: Create your service as normal ...
Thu, 3 May, 2018 at 11:46 AM
If your Windows service stops and restarts on logoff, the following is likely happening:
When you log off, your app is sent a WM_ENDSESSIO...
Thu, 11 Aug, 2016 at 1:47 AM
Many crashes in SRCDS/HLDS just freeze the application, they don't
cause it to close. FireDaemon can't detect when this happens, so it
does...
Wed, 31 Aug, 2016 at 6:11 AM
Often FireDaemon Pro services are run off other local drives, such as the E: or F: drive. These drives could be a new local disk array, iSCSI targets or SA...
Sat, 27 Apr, 2019 at 8:36 AM
When running your Windows services with FireDaemon Pro, you may have to run your service a nominated local or domain user in order to access local or netwo...
Thu, 7 Jan, 2021 at 12:18 PM
Windows comes with a set of service control utilities that can make running FireDaemon Pro services easier. Here are a few examples.
sc.exe
sc.exe...
Thu, 11 Aug, 2016 at 3:09 AM
FireDaemon Pro can run applications off drives that have been mapped with
subst (or applications that require a subst drive for some part of
their ...
Thu, 11 Aug, 2016 at 3:27 AM
See these MSDN Articles:
Introduction to Windows Service Applications
What is a Service Application?
Thu, 11 Aug, 2016 at 3:31 AM
The RunAs service allows you to run an application as different user. You typically launch applications in this mode via the command line or shortcut. The ...
Wed, 9 May, 2018 at 7:34 AM
