https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Win32 Articles feed https://www.infoq.com/articles/windows-services-reliable-restart/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Win32-articles <img src="https://res.infoq.com/articles/windows-services-reliable-restart/en/headerimage/the-service-and-the-beast-header-1671627853685.jpg"/><p>Windows Services play a key role in the Microsoft Windows operating system, and support the creation and management of long-running processes. When  “Fast Startup” is enabled and the PC is started after a regular shutdown, though, services may fail to restart. The aim of this article is to create a persistent service that will always run and restart after Windows restarts, or after shutdown.</p> <i>By Michael Haephrati, Ruth Haephrati</i> Windows C++ Reliability Win32 Development article Wed, 28 Dec 2022 09:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/articles/windows-services-reliable-restart/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Win32-articles Michael Haephrati, Ruth Haephrati 2022-12-28T09:00:00Z /articles/windows-services-reliable-restart/en