What is the best way to change the startup type of an EXISTING service? There's a Windows service that we use that up until Windows 2003 it worked fine, but in 2003, it's disabled by default. (I think XP SP2 may be the same way actually.) I know you can set the startup type when you create a new service, but this one is not new.
I suppose I could change it right in the registry. That would be really easy, but seems kinda like a hack. Any suggestions? Does Windows Installer change that if you try to start it from the ServiceControl table?
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Changing Service Startup Type
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spdygnlz
, Jan 16 2007 20:15
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Stefan Krueger
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Posted 17 January 2007 - 10:34
You may be able to START a service during install, but I don't think you can change the START TYPE of an existing service using built-in MSI functionality. So you would have to call a custom action, using the appropriate Windows APIs (I don't recommend changing the registry directly).
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Posted 17 January 2007 - 16:46
Yeah, that's what I was afraid of. OK. Thanks!
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