How can I make a service to be a watchdog for a desktop application knowing that Services cannot/shouldn’t interact with Desktop applications.
Or is it only working assuming there is only one user?
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How can I make a service to be a watchdog for a desktop application knowing that Services cannot/shouldn’t interact with Desktop applications.
Or is it only working assuming there is only one user?
Service can not have a UI but they can run executables.
It is just that for windows vista, windows 7 and on, the service need to find out under which user/session to run the executable.
Here is a blog post explaining how to do [that].1