Registering the Service

Note that all commands on this page must be ran in an admin console (right-click on cmd.exe, run as administrator).

At minimum you must register the service in order to use it. Here is the most basic command you can use for that:

rattail filemon install

However you will most likely want the service startup set to “automatic” - and you may also need to set it to run as a particular user account (see Windows User).

You can take care of all that at once with the command:

rattail filemon install --auto-start --username rattail

This will register the service (so it’s visible in Windows Services) and set it to automatic startup and to run as rattail user.

(If the command fails then please be sure you are running an admin console.)

Note that the service will not have been started yet. Before you can do that though you will need to configure it; see Configuration if you’ve not already done that.

Unregistering the Service

To unregister the filemon service, you can do (again, in an admin console):

rattail filemon remove

Note that if you have the Windows Services snap-in open, or possibly one of a few other things, the service may not truly be removed until you close those things. For more info see this Stack Overflow post.

You can close, then re-open Windows Servies snap-in to see if it has been truly removed from that list.