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I'm writing a Python 3 program in Windows and I would like to be able to continue running the program in the background (not in the taskbar) to gather information.

I was able to create it as a service, but I need admin privileges to run and it stops immediately!

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It sounds to me like what you want is to make your program a Windows service. There's a bunch of good information in this other question: Is it possible to run a Python script as a service in Windows? If possible, how?

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Thanks for the reply! I tried the code in the link in my program and I got printed instructions that I Don't understand: I put the instructions I got in my question. You can probably tell that I don't really know what i'm doing!
Also. Keep in mind that i'm going to eventually compile my code into an executable.
@Luke: I'm guessing your script is LIP.py, correct? and you ran it from the command line like: python LIP.py? If so, the usage output is telling you that you need to pass in some options to start your script as a service, try: python LIP.py --install
Yes. But I actually run it from IDLE, and after that, it should be an executable.
@LukeDinkler I'm fairly certain that the command line arg's will be the same when you run it as an exe, so you'll just start it: LIP --install.
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