Re: Windows service Rights question

From: Steve Long (Steve_Noneya_at_NoSpam.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:01:20 -0700

Okay, there are processes running on my machine that just happen to also be
Windows services. I didn't write these services. If I open task manager and
try to kill the process, it won't kill it. However, if I go to the Services
Control Panel and stop the service, it kills the process. An example of this
is the McShield.exe service which is the virus checker running on my box. I
can't kill this process but I can stop the service, which kills the process.
I do have admin right on my box they say.

Steve

"Brian Gideon" <briangideon@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1096573869.159874.226860@k17g2000odb.googlegroups.com...
> Steve,
>
> I read through this several times, but I'm still not confident that I
> understand what you mean. A user with administrative privledges on a
> box will always be able to stop a service via the service control
> manager or kill any process associated with a service on that box.
> Though killing a process associated with service running under a
> different login will require functionality that the task manager does
> not provide, it is always possible. Normal users are unable stop a
> service or kill a process associated with a service. If the process
> associated with a service does not terminate after stopping the service
> in the service control manager then there is a problem with your code.
>
> Brian
>
> Steve Long wrote:
> > In writing a Windows service with .NET, I'm noticing that the process
> for
> > some services can not be killed with specifically stopping the
> service. If
> > you try to kill the process with, say task manager, you get an access
> denied
> > message. I just wrote a test service and I can kill the process for
> this
> > service without actually stopping the service. Can someone tell me
> how to
> > keep the process for my service from being killed without actually
> stopping
> > the service?
> >
> > I appreciate any insight into this thread.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Steve
>

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