Advantages of Windows Service Application in .net

You can control the user (and the rights associated with this user account) which starts the process
an Automatically started process means the desktop need to be on, not user logged, for the service to run
a policy on failure can be defined (try to restart n times run a specific program if fails)
a dependency can be defined (if you depend on other sevices)
you can wrap your scrip in an invisible windows
you can easily start/stop/restart the script (net start <scriptname>)
You can manage a service from another machine (start/stop)
As services write to the event log you can also monitor the service from another machine (although nothing stops you from doing this from a regular application)
No one has to be logged on for the service to run

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