Run iMacros as a Service with "SrvAny"

SrvAny and its installer "InstSrv" are applications provided by Microsoft. SrvAny allows Windows applications to run as a service. 

Easily adapted instructions are included with the program in the file SRVANY.WRI and many other places on the web. Here are links to a few sites:

• http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/8148/8148.html
• http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/7959/7959.html
• http://www.electrasoft.com/srvany/srvany.htm (also contains SrvAny and InstSrv download links (30 KB only)
• Download SrvAny from Microsoft as part of the Windows Server Resource Toolkit (12 MB).

This is how it looks in the registry after you run the SrvAny installer command line:

"InstSrv iOpusService c:\iOpus\srvany.exe":

Now you need to add a "Parameter" key with a value called "Application". It contains the path to your executable. For example, this can be the application that uses the iMacros Scripting Interface).

Due to a restriction enforced by Windows on services, a service program can either be interactive (have a Console, read keyboard input etc) or have network access (but not both at the same time). 

Since iMacros needs both abilities, please check "Interact with desktop" box. For the network access you need to provide the user name and password of a normal Windows account via the "iimInit" command. You can also provide the password encrypted. iMacros detects automatically if the password is in plain text or encrypted form. To encrypt your password, just copy & paste an encrypted password from a recorded macro.

Example: iimInit ("", TRUE, "administrator", "password", "domain(if any)")