windows-services

Install a windows service: there is a util with Visual Studio: InstallUtil.exe. If I have a service MyService.exe and want to install it on a windows 7 without Visual Studio on it, how can I install it? user1899501 You can try NSSM (Non-Sucking Service Manager) for the times the "sc" doesn't work quite as expected. http://nssm.cc I had an service I built in Go not too long ago that I could not get to run under "sc", nssm worked perfectly. seva titov One way is to use sc.exe, which is part of OS. Example: sc create **ServiceName** start= auto binPath= "c:\mydir\myService.exe" where binPath is

I have developed a simple win 32 service in delphi 7 which performs some print operations. All works fine on our XP machines, but fails on the target Windows 2008 standard server . When I put a try except block around the print statement, it results in the "Printer Selected is not valid" error. When I check the Printer object for count of printers and event write out all the printers available in the Printer object to a file, it works fine. Only when I try to perform a print (on any printer local and network), it fails. Based on lot of research using google, I found quite a few suggestions to

I need to get the status of Windows "print spooler" service in my C++ application. Use QueryServiceStatus or QueryServiceStatusEx . There are plenty of examples on the web on how these are used. The function that @shikarssj provided is working perfectly, it only requires admin rights when loading the service. Here is a version that does not ask for full permission: #include <Windows.h> int GetServiceStatus( const char* name ) { SC_HANDLE theService, scm; SERVICE_STATUS m_SERVICE_STATUS; SERVICE_STATUS_PROCESS ssStatus; DWORD dwBytesNeeded; scm = OpenSCManager( nullptr, nullptr, SC_MANAGER