Akram El Assas is an independent developer whose open-source utility Servy addresses a long-standing gap in Windows administration by allowing any executable, script, or batch file to be registered and managed as a genuine Windows service. Instead of forcing system administrators to write custom wrappers or wrestle with the sc.exe command line, Servy provides a lightweight GUI and CLI that expose every relevant service parameter—startup type, log-on credentials, working directory, process priority, failure actions, stdout/stderr capture—through a single dialog or a one-line command. Typical use cases range from turning Node.js, Python, or Go background APIs into always-on services on small business servers, to sandboxing legacy desktop programs that must start before log-on in kiosk or POS environments, to running portable diagnostics that survive user logout during remote support sessions. Because the tool writes directly to the Service Control Manager database, the wrapped application appears in the native Services snap-in, integrates with Event Viewer, and honors Group Policy restrictions without extra configuration. Updates are published as signed portable executables and Chocolatey packages, ensuring compatibility from Windows 7 through Windows 11 and Server 2025. The project’s GitHub repository offers verbose logging examples, PowerShell automation snippets, and community-tested templates for common runtimes such as Nginx, MongoDB, and Home Assistant. Akram El Assas’ Servy is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources like winget, always install the latest release, and can be queued for batch deployment across multiple machines.
Servy lets you run any app as a native Windows service with full control over working directory, startup type, process priority, logging, health checks, pre-launch scripts and parameters.
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