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+      Making boxbackup run as a Windows Service
+
+For most installations (with the default locations for config files,
+etc.) running the install-cygwin-service.pl script will complete the
+installation painlessly, and you will have a running bbackupd after
+completing the installation, and whenever you reboot.
+
+Simply run the script:
+
+perl install-cygwin-service.pl
+
+The service can be monitored in the Windows Service Manager. It is named
+boxbackup.
+
+For non-standard configurations, there are command-line options to point
+the script to the bbackupd.conf config file, and the bbackupd.exe
+executable:
+
+perl install-cygwin-service.pl [-c <path-to-bbackupd-config-file>] [-e
+<path-to-bbackupd-executable-file>]
+
+
+      Removing the Service
+
+If you decide not to run backups on a machine anymore, simply remove the
+service by running:
+
+sh remove-cygwin-service.sh
+
+