lmenaria
4th April 2006 08:49 UTC

Start Windows Service Automatically
Hello everyone,

I have created a windows service using NSIS script and Installed it, It has AUTO option, I want to Start Automatically while Installation in Done, without restart Machine or Manual Start.

Pls Suggest me
thanks
LM

flizebogen
4th April 2006 11:43 UTC

You can invoke the windows command line tool net

netstart"servicename"

Brummelchen
4th April 2006 12:55 UTC

net start
and
net use
are your friends.
but be aware that the settings of service allow to stop it.
some services were set in all 3 failures to restart again
- they are unstopable

try to set their behaviour from atuomatic to manual/disabled before

read
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window...df35f1033.mspx

it is something like
sc config <service> start= disabled
or
sc config <service> start= demand

# in german
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro....mspx?mfr=true

lmenaria
5th April 2006 06:25 UTC

Thanks

Yathosho
8th April 2006 12:21 UTC

so what do you guys prefer to use? nsexec doing net start/stop or the services plugin? pro and cons?

kichik
8th April 2006 13:00 UTC

A plug-in, which in turn uses a documented API, is the best option in my opinion. net.exe is a user-end tool, which may not exist on all systems and may change its interface over versions. On the other end, net.exe is simpler to use than API. But the plug-ins should solve that by providing their own documented interface above the API.