Re: Can services have forms?

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"jim" <jim@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:RVqki.26090$Fo1.1090@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The ability for Services to "interact with the desktop", i.e. to display forms and dialogs, is going to /disappear/ in future versions of Windows (if it hasn't already, with Vista).

How will the services be administered if they can no longer interact with the desktop?


How will the admin screen work if the service starts before a user is logged in?

At the simplest level, you can have a seperate admin program that saves all the required settings into the registry, then offer to restart the service. The service will pick up the changes as required. (don't even need to restart it if it reads the settings at each operation)

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