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down vote accepted  Daemons - Daemon does not stand for Disk and
Execution Monitor ( They are the processes which run in the
background and are not interactive. They have no controlling
terminal.  They perform certain actions at predefined times or
in response to certain events. In *NIX, the names of daemons end
in d.  Services - In Windows, daemons are called services.  If
you're wondering why *NIX has a command named service, it is
just used to run init scripts (shorthand for initialization
scriptrunlevel).  Process - Process is a running program. At a
particular instant of time, it c