Question

I am using the following code to change the credentials of a windows service. Before I display the message that credentials were successfully changed, I want to confirm the new credentials have been applied. How can I do that?

using (ManagementObject service = new ManagementObject(new ManagementPath(objPath)))
                {
                    object[] wmiParams = new object[11];
                    wmiParams[6] = _username;
                    wmiParams[7] = _password;
                    service.InvokeMethod("Change", wmiParams);
                    Thread.Sleep(2000);
                    //check if new credentials in order
                    //Console.WriteLine("Service credentials changed");
                }

Answer 1

The new credentials won’t apply until you restart the service, and I suggest you use the ServiceController instead of WMI.