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title: "Explain Windows service."  
description: "Explain Windows service."  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2011-11-09  
updated: 2020-09-19  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1344/explain-windows-service  
category: "c#"  
tags: ["c#"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Explain Windows service.

You often need programs that run continuously in the background. For example, an email server is expected to \
listen continuously on a network port for incoming email messages, a print spooler is expected to listen continuously to print requests, and so on.

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

You often need programs that run continuously in the background. For example, an email server is expected to \
listen continuously on a network port for incoming email messages, a print spooler is expected to listen continuously to print requests, and so on.


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