[BUG] Deprecate the use of NSSM
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The NSSM project (https://nssm.cc/) is no longer maintained and is considered a dead project. We originally used NSSM to make the salt-minion service restart when it failed to connected to the master after 7 tries. I believe we have addressed the issues causing the minion to fail after 7 tries. Therefore we may no longer need NSSM. We need to try adding the service directly and NOT using NSSM.
NSSM is also flagged by some Antivirus' as "potentially unwanted software" as it is used by many malware products to keep their services running. We recompiled the NSSM (Non-sucking Service Manager) project and renamed all instances to SSM (Salt Service Manager) so that it looked more professional in the task manager. However, it was still flagged by VirusTotal.
Additionally, NSSM leaves many events in the Windows Application Event logs with undefined Descriptions that cannot be updated because the project is not maintained
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