Though I haven’t personally tested, I have good reason to believe that the above stated AT COMMAND solution will work for XP, 2000 and Server 2003. Per my and Bryant’s testing, we’ve identified that the same approach does not work with Vista or Windows Server 2008 — most probably due to added security and the … Read more
Update: Nearly four years after my original answer and this answer is very out of date. Since TopShelf came along Windows Services development got easy. Now you just need to figure out how to support failover… Original Answer: I’m really not a fan of Windows Scheduler. The user’s password must be provided as @moodforall points … Read more
sc create <servicename> binpath= “<pathtobinaryexecutable>” [option1] [option2] [optionN] The trick is to leave a space after the = in your create statement, and also to use ” ” for anything containing special characters or spaces. It is advisable to specify a Display Name for the service as well as setting the start setting to auto … Read more
Below I have put together everything I learned about Starting/Stopping a Windows Service from a non-Admin user account, if anyone needs to know. Primarily, there are two ways in which to Start / Stop a Windows Service. 1. Directly accessing the service through logon Windows user account. 2. Accessing the service through IIS using Network … Read more
At the risk of stating the obvious, if you have any C/C++/Java background, I think C# offers you the lowest point of entry. Assuming you’re using Visual Studio 2008, you can follow these steps: Open Visual Studio 2008, and select the File|New|Project menu option. In the New Project dialog… Select the Visual C#|Windows node in … Read more