Technical FAQs

Find the answers to your most frequently asked FireDaemon product questions... along with a few Windows questions as well.

Open Ports to Allow Online Traffic
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
Restart Your FireDaemon Pro Service at a Specific Time
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
Service Stops/Restarts on Logoff
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
SRCDS/HLDS Crashes
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
Local File System Permissions Required To Run FireDaemon Pro Services
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
Windows Service User Accounts
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
Useful Windows Service Control Utilities
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
Using Subst Mapped Drives in FireDaemon Pro
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
What are Windows Service Applications?
See these MSDN Articles:   Introduction to Windows Service Applications What is a Service Application?
Thu, 11 Aug, 2016 at 3:31 AM
What Is The RunAs Service?
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