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UWS (Universal Windows Service) is a flexible windows service starting and watching executables. UWS is more than a task scheduler starting applications due to different start events e.g. cron trigger.

Serveral Bugs were fixed with this release:

- the file uws.installState was overwritten when a second service was installed. *.installState file are now renamed to *.installState.uws (Do not delete *.installState.uws files! they are mandatory for uninstall a service)
- Service problems (e.g. not listed in Management tool) when the path to uws.exe conatins whitespaces
- On some systems there were problems with EventLog... read more

UWS (Universal Windows Service) is a flexible windows service starting and watching executables. UWS is more than a task scheduler starting applications due to different start events e.g. cron trigger.

New features:

- Besides invoking executables (*.exe), now methods from DLLs and .Net Assemblies can also be invoked with UWS
- New and easy to use configuration GUI
- New Crash-Monitor for restarting crashed executables (e.g. FTP-Server)
- More specialized triggers (WeeklyTrigger, ServerTrigger, OnServiceStartTrigger)
- Easier integration of UWS in your C# project (see example of installation for further information)... read more

The first official release of UWS (Universal Windows Service) can be downloaded from sourceforge.
For more infos look at the official website http://uws.sourceforge.net