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You have completed the following pre-flight checks:Step 1. Backup-- IMPORTANT --Ensure you fully back up your machine so you can complete a bare metal restore or VM snapshot restore.Ensure you export your FireDaemon Pro service definitions for safekeeping.-- IMPORTANT --Step 2. Get New License KeysYour FireDaemon Pro 4 or earlier license key will not work with FireDaemon Pro 5.If you have an active Software Assurance subscription you can upgrade to FireDaemon Pro 5 or FireDaemon Pro OEM 5 for free. Please contact us to obtain your new license keys or link to download FireDaemon Pro 5 OEM.Otherwise, if you have purchased an earlier version of FireDaemon Pro, you must purchase a FireDaemon Pro upgrade license key. Step 3. Check Your Upgrade PathThere is no upgrade path from any version before FireDaemon Pro 3.If you are running FireDaemon Pro 3, install FireDaemon Pro 5 and migrate your services manually.If you have FireDaemon Pro 4.0, 4.5 or 4.6 installed ensure you upgrade to the final version of FireDaemon Pro 4.6.3 before upgrading to FireDaemon Pro 5.If you have FireDaemon Fusion 6.6 or earlier installed, please ensure you upgrade to FireDaemon Fusion 6.6.6 before upgrading to the latest version of Fusion 7.If you have an earlier version of FIreDaemon Pro 5 installed, it will be upgraded to the latest build.Step 4. Prepare for the UpgradeYour FireDaemon Pro services will need to be stopped and restarted as part of the upgrade. Please plan for the corresponding outage.If you have FireDaemon Fusion installed, this will need to be upgraded too. Please plan to upgrade FireDaemon Fusion. FireDaemon Fusion will need to be restarted as part of the upgrade too.Ensure you have your FireDaemon Pro 5 license key available so it can be applied at the end of the upgrade process.Step 5. Apply the UpgradeLogin as

Modified on: Tue, 4 Mar, 2025 at 10:45 AM FireDaemon Pro 5 is a major update to our Windows service management product. FireDaemon Pro allows you to create and run any application, program, or script interactively as a Windows service on Session 0. FireDaemon Pro allows your programs to be placed in a lightweight service container for fine-grained monitoring and control.TABLE OF CONTENTSMinimum System RequirementsFireDaemon Pro 5 End User DownloadFireDaemon Pro 5 OEM Integrator DownloadWindows Server Core App Compatibility Feature On Demand (FOD)FireDaemon Pro 5 New FeaturesBuy FireDaemon Pro 5FireDaemon Pro 5 DocumentationBefore Upgrading To FireDaemon Pro 5Step 1. BackupStep 2. Get New License KeysStep 3. Check Your Upgrade PathStep 4. Prepare for the UpgradeStep 5. Apply the UpgradeBugs? Issues? Feature Requests?ScreenshotsFireDaemon Pro 5 GUI in Dark ModeFireDaemon Pro 5 FireDaemon Service Resource MonitorFireDaemon Pro 5 Edit FireDaemon Pro Service DefinitionFireDaemon Pro 5 Edit FireDaemon Pro Service Security PermissionsFireDaemon Pro 5 Windows System Services ScreenFireDaemon Pro 5 Edit System Service DefinitionFireDaemon Pro 5 System InformationMinimum System RequirementsFireDaemon Pro 5 is designed to run on all recent 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows only. Please see the FireDaemon Pro Compatibility and Support Matrix and review the Changelog.FireDaemon Pro 5 End User DownloadFireDaemon Pro 3 & 4 license keys do not work with Pro 5. You must obtain a new license key to use FireDaemon Pro 5. Please read the "Get New License Keys" section below.Version 5.4.17 64-bit / x64For Microsoft Windows - Intel / AMD onlyMarch 2025 - 30-day trialInstaller SHA2-256 Checksum0CC850CB5A1A17EA55558880BB178261E84BBC66D75E8D6DC5569067A605A63ENeed to calculate the checksum? Download FireDaemon Lozenge!FireDaemon Pro 5 OEM Integrator DownloadFireDaemon Pro OEM customers can download product updates via the download link embedded in their Cleverbridge order confirmation or subscription renewal email. If you can't find that email or are unsure of their Cleverbridge reference number, please contact us.

FireDaemon Pro 5 OEM is available to customers with a current Software Assurance and Technical Support subscription.Windows Server Core App Compatibility Feature On Demand (FOD)If you are deploying FireDaemon Pro 5 on Windows Server Core (i.e. you are not installing Desktop Experience), please ensure you install the App Compatibility Feature On Demand (FOD) before using FireDaemon Pro. This Windows feature is required to allow FireDaemon Pro to display Windows Explorer dialog components correctly and to run other Windows operating system components from the FireDaemon Pro hamburger menu.FireDaemon Pro 5 New FeaturesFeatureDescription64-bit onlyMicrosoft ceased delivering 32-bit native operating systems in 2020. Hence, FireDaemon Pro 5 is only offered as a 64-bit product. Don't worry, FireDaemon Pro 5 still allows you to run 32-bit apps as a Windows services on 64-bit Microsoft operating systems.Universal CRTHistorically, we shipped the most recent Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime (MSVCRT) inside the FireDaemon Pro installer as an installation prerequisite. This dependency has been removed, and FireDaemon Pro 5 uses the Universal C++ Runtime (UCRT) which comes pre-installed with the operating system and maintained via Windows Update. This results in the installer being significantly smaller.Hardware-based code signingAll FireDaemon software products are digitally signed. Earlier FireDaemon Pro installers and binaries were signed with SHA1 and SHA256 2048-bit digests. Pro 5 implements hardware-based SHA256 4096-bit Extended Validation (EV) code signing. SHA1 has been dropped. This adheres to industry best practices and provides two levels of trust:The issuance of a hardware-based EV Code Signing Certificate is contingent on FireDaemon Technologies Limited being audited by the certificate issuer (i.e. SECTIGO)Security Teams can validate our installers and binaries to ensure they have not been tampered with by confirming the presence of our EV Code Signing Certificate and calculating corresponding installer checksums.ThemesThree themes are available: Light Theme, Dark Theme, and Windows Default Theme. They

FireDaemon Pro can be used to run a variety of dedicated game servers as a Windows service. How to run Halo as a Windows Service with FireDaemon Pro. What is Halo? Halo is a military science fiction first-person shooter game. The dedicated ser... Tue, 21 Sep, 2021 at 6:17 PM How to run Double Action: Boogaloo as a Windows Service with FireDaemon Pro. What is Double Action: Boogaloo? Double Action: Boogaloo is a free-to-p... Tue, 21 Sep, 2021 at 6:15 PM How to run ShootMania as a Windows Service with FireDaemon Pro. What is Shootmania? Shootmania is a first person shooter game. The dedicated ser... Tue, 21 Sep, 2021 at 6:14 PM How to run Supraball as a Windows Service with FireDaemon Pro. What is Supraball? Supraball is a first-person multiplayer sports game resembling soc... Tue, 21 Sep, 2021 at 6:12 PM How to run Assetto Corsa as a Windows Service with FireDaemon Pro. What is Assetto Corsa? Assetto Corsa is a realistic multiplayer racing simulat... Tue, 21 Sep, 2021 at 6:04 PM How to run Blackwake as a Windows Service with FireDaemon Pro. You can run the Blackwake Dedicated Game Server as a FireDaemon Pro Windows service.... Tue, 21 Sep, 2021 at 5:50 PM How to run Space Engineers as a Windows Service with FireDaemon Pro. Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction, exploration an... Tue, 21 Sep, 2021 at 5:42 PM How to run Sven Co-op as a Windows Service with FireDaemon Pro. Sven Co-op is a first-person co-operative action game. The dedicated server compon... Tue, 21 Sep, 2021 at 5:41 PM How to run Contagion as a Windows Service with FireDaemon Pro. Contagion is a zombie apocalypse game with human survivors. Ammunition and weapons are... Tue, 21 Sep, 2021 at 5:37 PM How to run Quake III as a Windows Service with FireDaemon Pro. Quake III is a first person action game. The dedicated server component can be run ... Tue, 21 Sep, 2021 at 5:34 PM

Are accessed via the hamburger menu -> View and Options dialog. Windows Default adheres to your desktop personalisation mode (e.g., Start -> Settings -> Personalization -> Colors -> Choose your mode).Service Control Desktop ShortcutsIf you right-click on a FireDaemon Pro service in GUI, you will see an option to Create Shortcuts. If you select that option, FireDaemon Pro will create shortcuts on your desktop to start, start in session, stop, stop in session, restart, and restart in session, which is specific to the FireDaemon Pro service. This makes it easy to manage FireDaemon Pro services without having to invoke the FireDaemon Pro GUI.Live Service Monitoring and ReportingFireDaemon Pro 4 and earlier used a polling method to update the Status, Process, and PID columns. This was not particularly useful, as you could not see service status changes and service creation and deletion in real time. This is resolved in FireDaemon Pro 5. The FireDaemon Pro services and Windows services lists are updated in real-time. So whenever a service changes status, a new service is created, or a service is deleted, this is seen immediately in the FireDaemon Pro 5 GUI.Live Service Resource MonitoringWe have removed the Memory and CPU columns from the FireDaemon Pro GUI and replaced them with a real-time Resource Monitoring dialog. To view the Resource Monitoring dialog, right-click on a running service and click Resource Monitor from the context menu. A Resource Monitor dialog will open showing the service name, FireDaemon Pro service status and PID, service process and PID, CPU, Private Bytes, and Data I/O in real time. The Resource Monitoring dialog allows you to monitor the service from start to stop without having to rely on third-party tools such as Task Manager and Process Explorer. Lastly, the Resource Monitor summarises the CPU, memory, and I/O utilisation

Pro. It's intentional. Email is a terrible mechanism for informing on status changes of Windows services. It can get very noisy, be lost in the deluge of another email, or just be ignored or overlooked for several hours, resulting in extended outage scenarios. FireDaemon Pro 4 logged events to the Windows Event Application and System Logs (EventLog) using custom event sources. From a systems and service monitoring perspective, this was not particularly useful when attempting to trace the real-time progress of a FireDaemon Pro service. Further, EventLog is designed as a management-focused event system that is typically hooked by a third-party reader, which filters the events and then performs actions based on the event in question. FireDaemon Pro 5 replaces EventLog with Event Tracing for Windows (ETW). ETW is an efficient, high-speed, kernel-level tracing facility that logs events to channels for targeted consumption and tracing. FireDaemon Pro 5 logs to Applications and Services Logs -> FireDaemon Technologies Limited -> FireDaemon Pro -> Service -> Operational ETW channel which is consumed by the Windows Event Log. This means there are no custom event sources anymore. Further, you can easily trace the progress (lifecycle) of a FireDaemon Pro service by subscribing to the Operational ETW channel. This is advantageous to Security Teams from an offensive and defensive threat-hunting perspective, as the activities of FireDaemon Pro services are sometimes misidentified as being malicious. ETW facilitates a single stream of events that can be consumed, isolated, aggregated, and interrogated using tools such as SilkETW, AWS Cloudwatch, or SIEMs such as Splunk.Security ACLsFireDaemon Pro 5 allows you to assign specific security permissions (ACLs) to FireDaemon Pro and Windows services. This allows you to grant or revoke access to services for specific users. You might use this feature to grant service start and stop rights to