How do I retrieve the username that a Windows service is running under?

Question

Given a service name, I would like to retrieve the username that it runs under (i.e. the username shown in the \'Log On\' tab of a service\'s properties window). There doesn

Answer 1

This solution works fine for me:

    ManagementObject wmiService = new ManagementObject("Win32_Service.Name='" + this.ServiceName + "'");
    wmiService.Get();
    string user = wmiService["startname"].ToString();