Technical FAQs
Find the answers to your most frequently asked FireDaemon product questions... along with a few Windows questions as well.
After upgrading FireDaemon Pro you may find your desktop or other
shortcut icons do not display correctly. This occurs most frequently in
Windows Vist...
Thu, 11 Aug, 2016 at 12:00 AM
If your process is not getting enough CPU to run, one of three things is likely occurring.
Background tasks are not given priority
Your Wi...
Wed, 31 Aug, 2016 at 4:52 AM
Sometimes when running a program, you need to make sure a port is open to external or internal traffic. While programs that do not accept traffic do no...
Wed, 7 Sep, 2016 at 12:14 AM
FireDaemon Pro makes it easy to start or stop a given Windows service on a schedule. To do so, take the following steps: Create your service as normal ...
Thu, 3 May, 2018 at 11:46 AM
If your Windows service stops and restarts on logoff, the following is likely happening:
When you log off, your app is sent a WM_ENDSESSIO...
Thu, 11 Aug, 2016 at 1:47 AM
Many crashes in SRCDS/HLDS just freeze the application, they don't
cause it to close. FireDaemon can't detect when this happens, so it
does...
Wed, 31 Aug, 2016 at 6:11 AM
Often FireDaemon Pro services are run off other local drives, such as the E: or F: drive. These drives could be a new local disk array, iSCSI targets or SA...
Sat, 27 Apr, 2019 at 8:36 AM
When running your Windows services with FireDaemon Pro, you may have to run your service a nominated local or domain user in order to access local or netwo...
Thu, 7 Jan, 2021 at 12:18 PM
Windows comes with a set of service control utilities that can make running FireDaemon Pro services easier. Here are a few examples.
sc.exe
sc.exe...
Thu, 11 Aug, 2016 at 3:09 AM
FireDaemon Pro can run applications off drives that have been mapped with
subst (or applications that require a subst drive for some part of
their ...
Thu, 11 Aug, 2016 at 3:27 AM