Re: WinHelp on W2003 SP1

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Note that interactive services are strongly discouraged. If a service
displays UI on the user's desktop, the user can often exploit this
and gain the same privileges as the service account (so called
"shatter" attack).

As a workaround for your problem, you can use CreateProcess
or some other API that doesn't automatically block until the child
process terminates. But ideally you should use a proxy process
running in the user's session to display the UI:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;327618
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308403

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"Rhett Gong [MSFT]" wrote:

> Hello Sue,
> Is the service installed or written by you?
> If it is installed by your as system service, you may need to check the
> "Allow service to interact with desktop" to allow the winhlp32 to display
> in the active desktop.
> "Allow service to interact with desktop" can be found through following
> stesps:
> 1> run services.msc in your run box
> 2> locate your service and click property
> 3> in Log On tabpage, if you log on your service as Local System Account,
> please check the box below.
>
> Please let me know if my answer helps you resolve the problem. If there is
> anything more I can assist you, please feel free to let me know.


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