How do you make a service interactive?

[Green Man]

I'm trying to run hardware monitor as a service.

I copied srvany.exe and instsrv.exe from the CD in my resource kit to C:\program files\Winbond\HWDoctor
and modified the registry with
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HWmonitor
parameters
Application=c:\program files\Winbond\HWDoctor\hwdoctor.exe
AppDirectory=c:\program files\Winbond\HWDoctor
Then I ran
C:\program files\Winbond\HWdoctor\instsrv.exe" HWmonitor "C:\program files\Winbond\HWDoctor\srvany.exe

Then I ran
net start HWmonitor

I checked my services, and the service was installed and started. woohoo

So, then I unplugged the RPM lead for my CPU fan. No alert.

I looked around at technet, and I found a reference to using an arguement when you use srvany.exe to make the service interactive. I couldn't find any documentation, though. Did I miss adding a subkey to the registry entry?

 

[Smilin]

hehe. You added a service by hand - bitch of a task. The rest is easy thankfully:

Just bring up services in computer management, find your service listed and double click it. On the "log on" tab you'll find a check box to "allow service to interact with desktop"

 

[Green Man]

Thanks. now that you mention it, I might have seen that in there once.

I'll let you know how it works out.