Re: Windows service Rights question

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

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:37:37 -0700

Actually, I was wondering how to make my program behave like that too. Can
you help with that?

Steve

"Brian Gideon" <briangideon@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1096576563.743420.173960@k26g2000oda.googlegroups.com...
> Steve,
>
> I understand what are saying now. This is correct. Although you have
> administrative priviledges on your box you will not be able to kill a
> process running under the system account from the task manager. You
> need to use kill.exe which comes with the resource kit or pskill.exe
> which is free and can be downloaded from http://www.sysinternals.com.
> I hope this helps.
>
> Brian
>
>
> Steve Long wrote:
> > 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
> >
>

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