Show a message box from a Windows Service

Question

Can you display a message box (or any form of notification) from a windows service? Can\'t get it to work. I used:

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Answer 1

Allow service to interact with desktop will help you doing this from the Services.msc console.

BUT, this is a very bad idea. Especially if you forget to remove this messagebox later on. The service will hang since you will have a messagebox which no one can click on.