Re: How to make sure a Service starts BEFORE a user logs on?

From: Roland Frank (roland.frank.no-spam_at_gmx.info)
Date: 05/27/05 

Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 21:38:06 +0200

Hi Polaris,
just a stupid thought maybe, but how likely is it
that some user restarts your service?
So, isn't start of your service information enough
that the machine JUST rebootet?

Roland

> Thanks for the info.
>
> Within the service program, I need to "detect" the event that the machine
> has JUST rebooted. So I look for (each second) the change of logged on user
> count: right after reboot, the logged on user count should be one (which is
> the "System" account, assuming the service starts before any user has logged
> on the machine). After the user logs on the machine, the service will notice
> that the user count increased to 2 and get a "conclution" that the machine
> must have JUST been rebooted. It works fine as long as the user did not log
> on to the machine before the service starts.
>
> May be there is other way to detect a reboot event?
>
> Polaris
>
> "Ray Trent" <ratrent@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
> news:OHb4mguYFHA.2160@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>
>>Services can, of course, take an arbitrary and unpredictable amount of
>>time to "start up". Off the top of my head, the only way I can think of to
>>do what you want here would be to write a GINA and synchronize its passing
>>on of credentials with completion of your service startup.
>>
>>Ugly job, and nasty if there turns out to be a bug in your code :-).
>>
>>Why does your service need to run before a user logs on? This sounds
>>suspiciously like you're asking the wrong question.
>>
>>Polaris wrote:
>>
>>>Hi:
>>>
>>>I have a regular Windows Service program (not a kernel driver) which must
>>>start BEFORE a user logs into his machine (XP or W2K). It works most of
>>>the time, but sometimes, I noticed that it started AFTER I log on the
>>>machine; especially if I logged in the machine fast right after a reboot.
>>>
>>>Is there a way in the service program, I can do something to make sure
>>>that, after reboot, the service starts before a user logs in the machine
>>>(no matter how fast the user is trying to complete his logon process)?
>>>
>>>Thanks In Advance !
>>>Polaris
>>
>>--
>>../ray\..
>
>
>

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