Service Stone

There's a multitude of programs to make your workflows easier to manage, and it ultimately comes down to what you do, as well as your demands for the respective software. There's a little bit of everything for everyone, and this also happens to apply to Windows software: all of this, to make life easier.

A tool most intriguing is Service Stone, which aims to bring more flexibility to workflows where the user operates with multiple services at once. The software can simulate your other programs, turning them into portable services of sorts.

In an effort of turning busy workflows into less busy workloads, the program offers a relatively simple-to-use solution for the users who regularly work with multiple programs, each with their own different version, to make for a smoother integration with their operating system. What this does, is it effectively makes working with those programs more efficient, as the service manager skips the need to commit those apps to your system.

The software simulates everything related to your chosen programs' processes, and affords you a variety of settings to configure for more distinct workflows. Add a new service, state the corresponding file, and save it. Being able to clone your created services is a huge convenience booster in this case, as the program can create multiple instances of the same "portable" service.

For those with more particular workflows, the ability to set arguments and change a process' environment variables can come in quite handy. Behavior alterations can also be implemented, and you can choose to add delays for your services. Quick options to halt services are likewise available, with the main shortcut to use here being the Ctrl+C, plus Ctrl+Break combination.

The Dependency feature furthers the possibility to molding the program to your workflows. Through it, one can launch another service before the current one starts, and this is done by adding the relevant service IDs in the ID list field. You can set delays here via the Max Wait function.

Service Stone, a program able to turn executables into portable services, is incidentally a portable program itself. It is a functional and relatively easy-to-use piece of software, capable of providing elaborate workflows with more breathing room.