Guide - How to make MQ2EQBCS a Windows service. (1 Viewer)

[TreeHuginDruid]

For those who want to make EQBCS as a Windows Service:

1) Download the Windows Resource Kit 2003
2) Run the executable to install the Resource Kit
3) Open up a command prompt and run the following to install a service stub (default install location used in this example):

You may substitute "EQBC Service" with whatever name you would like to give to the service for display purposes

X86 command:

"C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\instsrv.exe" "EQBC Service" "C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\srvany.exe"

or if you're running 64 bit,

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\instsrv.exe" "EQBC Service" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\srvany.exe"

Quotation marks are required... !!!!

NOTE: You need administrative rights to issue the above command ... and some systems may not allow this when typing it in the command prompt.
An easy way around this is to create a batch file with the command inside it, set the batch file to run as administrator... and then run the batch file from windows explorer.

4) Run regedit to edit the Windows registry, and navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EQBC Service
5) From the Edit menu, select New, select Key, and name the new key Parameters
6) Highlight the Parameters key
7) From the Edit menu, select New, select String Value, and name the new value Application
8) Highlight the Application key
9) From the Edit menu, select Modify, and type in the full path name and application name of EQBCS, including the drive letter and file extension. If you are using a recent install of macroquest, it will be:



D:\RedGuides_MQ2\MQ2EQBCS.exe

or

C:\MacroQuest2\MQ2EQBCS.exe

10) Now go to Start and Run and type in services.msc
11) From here scroll down to EQBC Service (or whatever name you gave the service above), right-click and select Properties
12) On the General tab, change the Startup type to Automatic
13) Click the Start button to start your service
14) Select the Recovery tab, and you have the option of changing the drop-down boxes for First-Failure and so on to Restart the service
15) Select OK and you are finished!



NOTE: Updating ---
When using the RedGuides update program to update your Vanilla compile, you need to STOP the service first. Otherwise the application can not be overwritten with the updated version.

If you forget to do this, its ok, your system will notify you that you need to "close all copies of MQ2EQBCS.exe" before it can update the file.

Simply go to Windows Administrator Tools --> Services --> and stop the service .... perform the update... and then start the service again.

 

[nyghteyes]

I like this better than just downloading an unknown app from Sourceforge and trusting it with my registry. Thanks THD