>>He says that he will need to install Windows Resource Kits on all our client's boxes in order to setup my EMPS.exe as a service. You are talking to the ignorant right now, even now I'm Googling to find out more about how this works, so bearing that in mind, can I not just plug in the Registry entries and start the service? Why do I need the Resource Kit stuff?
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>IIRC, you will need instsrv.exe to install service and srvany.exe to run your application as service.

I wonder what vendors do when they install a service and they don't know if their clients have these intalled?