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What are Services?

Services are programs that run in the background and "watch" for events to happen. In the case of Print Wizard, this involves watching either for a print job to show up in a specific directory (despooling), or watching for a job to arrive over a network port.

Print Wizard supports two types of services, Foreground Services (previously known as Print Wizard Services) and Windows Services.

  • Foreground Services are those that are run by a specific user, when logged in, watching for print jobs to appear. This does require the user to log in and start the Print Wizard Service. Alternately you could add the service to the Windows Startup folder and it would run in the background whenever the user logged in.
  • Windows Services for Print Wizard are run from the Windows registry whenever the machine is actually booted up (you do not need to log a user in). These services are available for all users and will receive remote print jobs even if there is no user logged in. They normally run as a "Local System" user with very little permissions.

Both services are managed through the Print Wizard user interface. Refer to the Print Wizard manual for more information.

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