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How to change user credentials of windows service from command line? sc.exe config "Service Name" obj= "DOMAIN\User" password= "password" type= own See Shortcut Setting Log-On Credentials for Windows Services » jonathanmalek.com . @MattT points out that on Windows Server 2008R2 you have to add type= own , but prior to that version it isn't necessary. In PowerShell 3+, you can avoid escaping the arguments with the stop-parsing symbol : --% sc.exe --% config "Service Name" obj= "DOMAIN\User" password= "password" type= own I simply called WMI from powershell to do this. $Svc = Get-WmiObject win32

When should I go for a Windows Service and when should I go for a "Background Application" that runs in the notification area? If I'm not wrong, my design decision would be, any app that needs to be running before the user logins to the computer should be a service. For everything else use a background app. Is my decision right? Moreover, if I need "admin privileges" for my background app, I would escalate using a manifest. Are there any other specific advantage of running as a service? My general rules of thumb are as follows If it needs to always run, it's a service. If it needs to be run

I've written a Windows Service in C# that does a whole bunch of background admin tasks on the database. Now my customer wants to migrate the whole shebang to Azure. I know next to nothing about Azure, and my customer says you can't run a Windows Service on Azure. I've googled for this topic and come out with a few very specific case studies of what somebody did to move their Windows Service to Azure, assuming a fairly high level of understanding of how Azure works, but no general articles about whether or not Windows Services can run under Azure, or what to do to adapt them. I would really

I am having an issue with an application that I am creating. I am trying to start a windows service through my C# app. When I click my start button, it looks like everything goes through but when I log into the server, the service still does not show that it is running. However, the second time I run it, I get an exception that says the instance of the service is already running. Again when I log into the server, the service appears to be stopped. Has anyone ever seen this? Here is my code. try { while (reader.Read()) { int timeoutMilliseconds = 1000; string serviceName = reader["ServiceName"]

Is there a way to debug completely a windows service with Delphi? You can use unitDebugService.pas from Colin Wilson's NT Low Level Utilities (page is gone, available in the wayback machine ) and then in the DPR: begin if (paramCount > 0) and (SameText(ParamStr(1), '-DEBUG')) then begin FreeAndNil (Application); Application := TDebugServiceApplication.Create(nil); end; //... the rest of the normal DPR code end. This way you can run from within Delphi with debugging (by setting the project Debugger Parameters), use the EXE as a service, or run from the commandline with the -DEBUG switch, and .

I'm trying to create a Windows Service to launch Celery. I have come across an article that does it using Task Scheduler . However it seems to launch numerous celery instances and keeps eating up memory till the machine dies. Is there any way to launch it as a Windows service? Vite Falcon I got the answer from another website. Celeryd (daemon service for Celery) runs as a paster application, searching for 'Paster Windows Service' lead me here . It describes how to run a Pylons application as a Windows Service. Being new to paster framework and hosting python web services, it didn't cross my

How can we start/stop a Windows Service from Java? For example, I would like to start and stop the mysql Windows Service from Java. If start/stop is possible, then is it possible to know whether the service is started successfully or not? pavan You can formulate a Command Prompt script to start, stop, and check status on a service using a String Array: // start service String[] script = {"cmd.exe", "/c", "sc", "start", SERVICE_NAME}; // stop service String[] script = {"cmd.exe", "/c", "sc", "stop", SERVICE_NAME}; // check whether service is running or not String[] script = {"cmd.exe", "/c",