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I wrote an automator script and made it a service (the standard one that shows all hidden files, or un-shows all hidden files) and I'd like to make it a system-wide service so all user accounts on my Mac can use it.
I'd prefer to not log in to each account to set it up as I feel that would waste space (I know, not much is needed) but more importantly if I have to change the script I only have to do it in one place.
How do I do this?
I have other scripts I'd like to make available to all too.
I'm currently running OS X 10.9.5 on a 2008 (not Pro) MacBook core 2 duo.

Thank you, Frank. I'm aware of the packages but didn't realize how it all applied.
I didn't post if it worked for other user accounts because at the time, I didn't know. It was late when I got it working for my primary account and decided to check it later, which I did this morning, and the services did show up for the other accounts. Yea!!
As far as the workflows being "corrupt", I still don't know why, either.
It was odd that when I did Get Info for that file the Preview section actually showed (but of course, very tiny) the Automator script, so clicking (double-clicking? D-C worked this morning) it opened with no errors in Automator. Permissions are still 777 (unix), but I'll change them back to 666.
Hey! 666 removed them from Services! And when I try to open the workflow in Automator it tells me the file is corrupt. Go figure.
The answer to that might be that the /Library/Services directory already existed (because of the MacExplorer app I installed) so it held LaunchMacExplorer.workflow. The permissions on that file are drwxr-xr-x@ 3 padr staff 102 Jan 27 2013 LaunchMacExplorer.workflow .
I always wondered why write was needed for a workflow. Read or execute (unix) should be good enough.
I changed some of the files to 751 to match the MacExplorer workflow and those not only changed the coloring (ls -al) in terminal but they also now show up in Services. Yea!

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