Is there any way to start a GUI application from a windows service on Windows 7?

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This change was made for a reason and not simply to annoy developers. The correct approach is to put your UI in a different program and communicate with the session through a pipe, or some other IPC mechanism. The recommendation that services do not present UI is more than 10 years old now.

You should really try to follow these rules, even though it may seem inconvenient to begin with. On the plus side you will enjoy the benefit of keeping your service logic and UI logic separate

If your services runs under the LOCALSYSTEM account then you can check “Allow service to interact with desktop”, for the benefit of legacy services that would fail if they could not show UI. But it won’t help you anyway because the UI will show in session 0 where it is never seen!

I recommend you take a read of the official Microsoft document describing session 0 isolation.

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