windows-services

I have written a windows service and has set its startup type to be 'Automatic'. But after installing the service a user can change its type to 'disabled'. Is there a way by which I can identify the status of this service after service installation? Can I prevent a user from changing the startup type so that it will always be 'Automatic'? Thanks There is no API for doing this, but you can check the service start mode in the registry, at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ServiceName\Start. That value will be either 2 (automatic), 3 (manual), or 4 (disabled). You can't really

I've written a windows service in C# that converts wav files into mp3 and then stores them on a remote server. On my development rig (OS: WinXP SP3) the service starts up fine and runs the way it's supposed to. When I installed it the production machine (OS: WinServer 2000), upon starting the service it fails to start in a timely fashion, and remains in a constant "Starting" status. The program is clearly working though since the files are being converted and transferred. My hunch is that the problem is in the timer component, I think that on the Windows 2000 Server machine, the timer may be

I have a WCF service hosted in a Windows service. This service the WCF have one metohd and in this method I have one important line : Process Browser = Process.Start("iexplore.exe", hostUrl); I install Windows service as local system, but when I'm trying to invoke that method, everything seems to execute, except that one important line... and IE didn't open. I would like to add that the method itself is not in the service itself but in one of the service dll reference Any idea why? Since Windows Vista MS has been adding lots of security-related changed esp. in the area what Windows Services

I have a windows service that needs to access the files (sometime modification also) from a network (shared folder). I get the file name from an XML like, <add key ="FolderName" value="\\192.168.0.1\Source" /> I made a log file which always shows that the path is not found. Also i need to know how to debug a windows service using visual studio? Thanks in advance. Most likely, the problem is in permissions to the shared folder. Your service runs under some user account and this account needs to have access granted to that folder. In case it's the 'Local Service' account you won't be able to

Ok, I am trying to print a page from a windows service that I installed using a Visual Studio setup project. At first I set the Account property yo Local System, but it will tell me that there are no printers installed (and there are). So I changed it to user and now it just doesn't print (no error or anything). I did some Googleing and basically it said that "Interact with Desktop" should be enabled. To programatically do this you need to edit the registry settings for this service (which really is second prize). I tried to manually set it on the properties dialog under Services, but then I

I am having difficulty getting the User Name of a person logged into a machine using a windows service. When using both System.Environment.UserName or WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().UserName I get NTAUTHORITY\SYSTEM but when this application gets pushed I need to be able to map to the UserID of the person logged in to the system. The operating system this will be used on will be Windows XP. Any help would be very appreciated. Tim Robinson For XP only, this advice should apply: Get Window Station for a non-interactive user per process, user or session? Call OpenWindowStation to get a handle to

I would like to create a windows service in .NET that runs on WinMo 6.x.... There r a lot of documentation for how to do that in MFC (and non-MFC) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms838599.aspx but I can't find any pointers for .NET stuff, is it even doable? Thanks, I'm pretty sure (not 100%) you can only create a native service DLL (which means no .Net for this). A workaround is to create a console app (or a regular app that does everything from its Main method) and drop it in the /Windows/Startup/ folder. Your app will then be started automatically every time the device is reset.

I have a minimal python win32 service service.py that does nothing special: import win32serviceutil import win32service import win32event class SmallestPythonService(win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework): _svc_name_ = "SmallestPythonService" _svc_display_name_ = "display service" # _svc_description_='ddd' def __init__(self, args): win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework.__init__(self, args) self.hWaitStop = win32event.CreateEvent(None, 0, 0, None) def SvcStop(self): self.ReportServiceStatus(win32service.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING) win32event.SetEvent(self.hWaitStop) def SvcDoRun(self): win32event