Re: Make a Windows Service start a windows program.


"UJ" <fred@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Is there any way for a windows service to start a windows program ? I have
a
| service that will need to restart a windows app if it needs to.
|
| TIA - Jeff.
|
|

No there is no (easy, secure and portable) way to do this. A windows service
runs in a sandboxed non visible desktop, a process started from a service
inherits the same UI context so it will run in the same desktop, second the
service does not run in the security context of a logon user (if any), that
means that the lauched application won't have access to an interactive user
profile, so chances are that it fails to initialize when environmant
variables or profile setting are needed.

Willy.


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