SrvAny

This thing is great because it lets you run notepad as a service so you can stop and start it when testing service monitoring in SCOM. Stopping can be dodgy so just kill the process.

Note: The old srvany.exe and instsrv.exe from the Win 2003 resource kit are hard to find now.

Install a service

Download SrvAny.zip and extract contents.

Open admin PowerShell and type this command to run notepad as a service (path may vary depending on OS version):

SrvAny.exe -install ServiceShortName 1 c:\windows\notepad.exe

I don't know what the 1 does but you need it. Set the service to auto start and you're done.

Remove a service

SrvAny.exe -remove ServiceShortName