How to start a process from windows service into currently logged in user’s session

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The problem with Shrike’s answer is that it does not work with a user connected over RDP.

Here is my solution, which properly determines the current user’s session before creating the process. It has been tested to work on XP and 7.

https://github.com/murrayju/CreateProcessAsUser

Everything you need is wrapped up into a single .NET class with a static method:

public static bool StartProcessAsCurrentUser(string appPath, string cmdLine, string workDir, bool visible)

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