1. Go to the tomcat bin folder in the command prompt.
2. Type service.bat install which will install tomcat as a service in the windows platform. The tomcat service name will be your tomcat version. Suppose if you installed tomcat 5.5.17 version, the service name would be tomcat5. Basically it will be taken from the service.bat file.
3. To check tomcat service on Windows go to Control panel – Administrative Tools – Services
4. Once you installed the service, you can run the tomcat by simply using the service name
