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There is no native or easy way to make [[Shutter]] run as a service. This is because service applications are different from normal user applications (from programming point of view) and would have to be written differently. But, this doesn't mean that there cannot be any workaround. Below is a list of methods which worked for some users, but note that they are not officially supported and cannot be guaranteed to work.

== Windows tools ==

Windows Resource Kit provides two utilities that allow you to create a user-defined service for Windows applications. '''Instrsrv.exe''' installs and removes system services from Windows NT and '''Srvany.exe''' allows any Windows NT application to run as a service. 

* [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137890 How To Create a User-Defined Service]
* [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools]

== Third party tools ==

There are 3rd party tools exist that can run any application as a service, which will be more intuitive but unfortunately not free, for example: '''Any2Service''', '''FireDaemon '''.

Any2Service can be downloaded from here:
* http://www.snapfiles.com/get/any2service.html
* http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Any2Service.shtml

FireDaemon can be downloaded from here:
* http://www.firedaemon.com/

== User notes ==
You must NOT allow the service to interact with the desktop. If you do allow interaction, [[Shutter]] will close after a user logs off, leaving the system running.