Screen capture from windows service

Question

I\'ve got DirectShow based screen capture software. Internally it calls CopyScreenToBitmap function to grab screen. Then the picture is compressed by ffdshow. It works fine

Answer 1

As I understand it, a change was made in Vista that moved services onto a separate desktop from the console user. While you have ticked the box that "allows access" to the desktop, I think you still have to pragmatically switch your service to use that desktop.

Here is a blog post with some useful info and examples.