windows-services

I have been reading a lot about executing a GUI application from a Windows Service. The "Allow service to interact with desktop" check box worked for me when the Service runs as the SYSTEM user (I am using Windows XP). Now I need the Service to run as a User defined in a domain (from the network). Everything works fine (even if no user is logged into the machine) but the GUIs are not shown (even if the same network user is logged in!). I know that the GUIs are running, it's just that they are hidden. Why is that? Is there a way to show them if a user is logged on (like when created by the

I have successfully passed parameters from Installutil to my serviceinstaller but i cannt seem to pass these parameters to the Main(string[ args] function. Here is how i am trying to do this ....if there is any better wayto do what i am doing please let me know protected override void OnAfterInstall(IDictionary savedState) { base.OnAfterInstall(savedState); string[] args = new string[2]; args[0] = Context.Parameters["username"]; args[0] = Context.Parameters["password"]; new ServiceController(this.dataLoaderServiceInstaller.ServiceName).Start(args); } and this is my Program.cs static void Main

Background: I'm writing a service and want to give it as few privileges as necessary. Virtual Accounts (sometimes "Virtual Service Accounts") are sparsely documented feature new to Windows 7/2008R2 that are automatically managed accounts for services that need minimal privileges but access the network with a computer identity in a domain environment. My service doesn't need network access, so I'm using LocalService, but I don't like the fact that if I grant access to a file/etc I granting access to all services running as that account. Is there a least privileged account I can use? You don't

I have created a .net c# windows service that runs multiple tasks. I included exception handling in it but I would like to set up a global handler to catch unhandled exceptions in the windows service, how can I do this? I included exception handling in it but I would like to set up a global handler to catch unhandled exceptions in the windows service You could use AppDomain.UnhandledException . In your case however, your entire call to your service can be wrapped in a try/catch block. Since you haven't provided details for what you plan to do with this unhandled exception, your correct path I

I'm using Visual Studio 2010 with .NET 4.0. I have a windows service that is installed from a Visual Studio Setup Project. In the setup project I have the RemovePreviousVersion property set to True. In the project that contains the service I have an installer class that will be used to stop the service when upgrading from a previous version. So when upgrading the software the service will already exist and could be running. If it is running then during the installation the installer prompts that the file is already in use and gives the option to Try Again, Continue or Exit Installation. At

I have a windows service written in .Net 3.5 set to be automatically start, but it wouldn't start when system reboots. As I understand, it may be caused by my service's dependency aren't started when the services tries to start. I don't know what my service depends on. I tried the workaround by adding windows print spooler as one of my service's dependencies, since print spooler is one of the services start quite late during the boot-up. Well, the work around doesn't work neither. I'm using windows server 2003 r2. so the "delayed automatically restart" option is not available to me. and I can