How to make your own Service using PowerShell

Hi All,

I have an executable file (MyTask.exe). Now I want to make it as a service so whenever we start it in services.msc it will start the exe file and so on.

Can anyone have any idea how this can be done.

get-help New-Service

I tried with the below command, it created the Service in Services.msc

PS C:\windows\system32> New-Service -Name “Test” -BinaryPathName “C:\Users\amarnath.mahato\Desktop\My Docz\Backup\Powe
hell Scripts\Exe Files\LastBootUpTime.exe -k netsvcs” -DisplayName “Test” -StartupType Manual -Description “This is a
st service.”

Now when I am trying to start it, it throwing the below ERROR :

The Test service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

Error code -> 1053

Any suggestion on this… I am running is locally, and am local admin as well?

You can’t just run any old executable file as a service directly. They have to be written to work that way. If you want to run something else as a service, there’s an old tool called SrvAny.exe that can help with that.

As Dave mentioned SrvAny is very old and I believe only available in equally old Windows resource kits which are difficult to get these days. You can download and use a tool which provides the same functionality but it is still under active development call NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager.

https://nssm.cc/