Is this the right place to ask this question?
I want to run Bitcoin-qt as a windows service so the server doesn't have to be logged into and will autostart on boot, but in 0.8.3 (which I just noticed is beta, so should I go to 0.8.2?) I want my server to run it 24/7 so it'll be ready to accept bitcoins anytime and so once I start mining it'll be good.
I tried sc \\servername create "BitCoin Server" binPath="C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe -server -datadir=d:\bitcoin" DisplayName="BitCoin Server" start=auto
but that didn't work
in the options it has auto start on login but not on system start
Can someone help?
Check out the daemon instead of the full qt client. This will probably work much better as a service. If you're using Win7 or 8, it'll be located in "c:\Program Files(x86)\Bitcoin\daemon\bitcoind.exe". If you want to query your wallet, you'll have to use the command line if this is running.
HTH's