Question

I am using CreateService to installs a Windows Service executable however I can’t seem to find out how to set the description for the service.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Call ChangeServiceConfig2 passing SERVICE_CONFIG_DESCRIPTION as the dwInfoLevel parameter. You will also need a handle to the service, but CreateService gives you one of those.

SERVICE_DESCRIPTION description = { L"The service description" };
ChangeServiceConfig2(hService, SERVICE_CONFIG_DESCRIPTION, &description);