disabling an automatic service for installation

mdm · 11th August 2003, 15:11

I need to disable a service prior to unregistering, stopping and replacing. Is there a system call for a disable and subsequent re-enable of automatic service in windows?

mdm

Sunjammer · 11th August 2003, 15:26

disable? what do you mean by disable? do you mean you want to stop it starting automatically when the system starts?

mdm · 12th August 2003, 16:47

I mean that I have a service whose startup type is set to automatic; it is availible to the network. I want to reset service to disable, do my install, and then reset again to automatic to make availible to network again. I hope that clarifys.

thanks,
mdm

rainwater · 12th August 2003, 16:58

Turning it from Automatic to Disable doesn't stop the service. It seems you should be wanting to stop the service, install, then start the service.

Sunjammer · 12th August 2003, 23:13

The best I can offer right now (I'm a little tired/drunk

) is to point you in the direction of a plugin for NSIS I wrote a long time ago. It might not solve all of your issues but it will help and I or others will get you all the way pretty quickly, have no fear

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/archive/...rvices.dll.zip

mdm · 13th August 2003, 15:30

The thought here is that prior to stopping service, I want to make the service inaccessible to the network...so that I don't interrupt someone who's in the middle of using service. Admittedly either way I'm going to bum someone out, but this may be a better way to do that?

mdm

Joost Verburg · 13th August 2003, 16:40

That won't make any difference, you will always have to stop the service so users can't use it anymore.

mdm · 14th August 2003, 21:39

Yes, but I don't want users to be able to start or stop services while I'm running installer...

mdm

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mdm Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 57	disabling an automatic service for installation I need to disable a service prior to unregistering, stopping and replacing. Is there a system call for a disable and subsequent re-enable of automatic service in windows? mdm

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11th August 2003, 15:26	#2
Sunjammer Major Dude Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Swindon, UK Posts: 559	disable? what do you mean by disable? do you mean you want to stop it starting automatically when the system starts?

12th August 2003, 16:47	#3
mdm Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 57	I mean that I have a service whose startup type is set to automatic; it is availible to the network. I want to reset service to disable, do my install, and then reset again to automatic to make availible to network again. I hope that clarifys. thanks, mdm

12th August 2003, 16:58	#4
rainwater Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2000 Posts: 397	Turning it from Automatic to Disable doesn't stop the service. It seems you should be wanting to stop the service, install, then start the service.

12th August 2003, 23:13	#5
Sunjammer Major Dude Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Swindon, UK Posts: 559	The best I can offer right now (I'm a little tired/drunk ) is to point you in the direction of a plugin for NSIS I wrote a long time ago. It might not solve all of your issues but it will help and I or others will get you all the way pretty quickly, have no fear http://nsis.sourceforge.net/archive/...rvices.dll.zip

13th August 2003, 15:30	#6
mdm Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 57	The thought here is that prior to stopping service, I want to make the service inaccessible to the network...so that I don't interrupt someone who's in the middle of using service. Admittedly either way I'm going to bum someone out, but this may be a better way to do that? mdm

13th August 2003, 16:40	#7
Joost Verburg NSIS MUI Dev Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 3,717	That won't make any difference, you will always have to stop the service so users can't use it anymore.

14th August 2003, 21:39	#8
mdm Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 57	Yes, but I don't want users to be able to start or stop services while I'm running installer... mdm