What are the ColdFusion Application Server, Executive and RDS services for under the NT Services panel?
The ColdFusion Application Server service is the service that processes ColdFusion pages. It’s ColdFusion Server itself. The Executive service handles processes like running scheduled events, deleting old client variables cfid and cftoken variables from the registry or database, monitoring ColdFusion Server and restarting it if it goes down. It also checks the mail spool directory for mail to be sent out. The RDS service is the one that processes RDS requests from copies of ColdFusion Studio communicating with a remote ColdFusion Server.