have a look at these books:
Win32 System Services: The Heart of Windows® 98 and Windows® 2000
Marshall Brain
Ron Reeves
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Third Edition December 01, 2000
ISBN: 0-13-022557-6, 720 pages
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Windows System Programming Third Edition
By Johnson M. Hart
Publisher : Addison Wesley Professional
Pub Date : October 26, 2004
ISBN : 0-321-25619-0
Pages : 576
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Python Programming on Win32
Mark Hammond
Andy Robinson
Publisher: O'Reilly
First Edition January 2000
ISBN: 1-56592-621-8, 672 pages
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note it also possible to use java, perl ofcourse vb and c#
btw a related question: is it possible to create unix deamon processes in cygwin???