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Installing Windows binary
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### Installing Windows binary

Before you can install Big Sister on a Windows system you need the utilities`InstSrv.exe` and `SrvAny.exe`. These two utilities are part of the NT Resource Kit. Microsoft's license restricts us from distributing the tools with Big Sister. Anyway, if you do not have a copy of the Resource Kit you will probably be able to find them via Altavista (search for `inststrv.exe` onhttp://www.altavista.com/).

Once you successfully located your copy of `InstSrv` and `SrvAny` you can place them somewhere in the path, e.g. in your `system32` directory in your Windows directory.

You are now ready for unpacking the zip archive. Place the resulting bigsister directory wherever you like and then double click the `bin/install32.exe` executable. The tasks performed by install32 are:

- register Big Sister in the registry (install path)

- register Big Sister services in the Service Manager

Now start the Service Manager and decide which services your Windows box should start on boot. Three Big Sister services are registered:

- The agent uxmon,

- the display server bbd

- the monitor bsmon.

The server must run at least bbd and bsmon, while on agent systems only the agent is needed. Do not be irritated by the strange names listed in the service manager - during the next reboot Windows will adjust them.

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