How to make Windows Service start as “Automatic (Delayed Start)”

Question

Scenario:

A WCF service running as a Windows Service. Account is \"User\".

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What is done:

I have overridden th

Answer 1

Your only other option is to use P/invoke to call ChangeServiceConfig2 with SERVICE_CONFIG_DELAYED_AUTO_START_INFO. But since you seem to be unwilling to add the registry entry, I doubt you would want to use P/invoke. There's no other way to do it from the .NET Framework (< 4.0).