Speed up load time of service at boot

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I have built a Windows Service in C# which starts quickly and runs as expected.

However, I have noticed that it will usually take 30 seconds to a minute before windows will get round to starting my service at boot up.

I was wondering if there is anyway to improve this time or prioritize my service so it is started sooner?

Posted 3-Feb-14 2:02am

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 3-Feb-14 8:05am

You may have something special in your start code that take that amount of time?
You may show the code here and hope for someone spot it...

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Pete O'Hanlon · Answer 1 · 2014-02-03T03:10:00

While you can do this, generally it's not a good idea. Basically, each service belongs to a service group. The order of these service groups can be edited by double clicking and editing the List value in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ServiceGroupOrder. As I say, this is not a great idea - if you get it wrong, you will probably end up hosing your Windows install.