Windows 7 Services

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Greetings,
I have an application (.exe) that works off packets in an intranet. What I'm trying to achieve is that while no user has logged on, the application remains listening for packets from the server, in another words, work in the background, but when a user logs on using his username and password, this service comes to the foreground to interact with the desktop.

If anyone knows how to do this, I would really appreciate it.

Posted 28-Mar-12 5:14am

wvelasqu

Updated 28-Mar-12 17:47pm

Albert Holguin

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Richard MacCutchan 28-Mar-12 12:03pm

Please use English only; this is an international site and not everyone speaks Spanish.

Albert Holguin 28-Mar-12 23:57pm

Made some translations. :)

_Zorro_ 29-Mar-12 3:39am

Nice :)

Albert Holguin 29-Mar-12 10:03am

Figured the poster might get more solutions if more people on the site could read it.

Albert Holguin 28-Mar-12 23:47pm

edit: translation

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_Zorro_ · Answer 1 · 2012-03-28T05:20:00

Solution 1

Hello,

Did you look for information on services for Windows? (Not sure about the subject in C++, I suppose if you have access to the framework you can do the same).

I would look on this end (this is the first article I found, just to give you the idea[^])

Services remain "on" even if the user is not connected/logged-on to the computer.

And just in case, if I'm answering completely wrong and/or I didn't understand your question, apologies.

Cheers.

<edit>translation

Posted 28-Mar-12 5:20am

_Zorro_

Updated 28-Mar-12 17:56pm

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_Zorro_ 28-Mar-12 11:53am

Ojo que exe y servicios no son lo mismo. Y es mejor contestar por aca en vez de crear una nueva respuesta.

Que quiere decir en segundo plano en tu caso?

wvelasqu 28-Mar-12 11:59am

Este es el problema, la aplicacion ".exe" recibe mensajes del servidor para ser mostrados en el escritorio del usuario, en Windows XP lo que yo hacia era mantener un servicio escuchando que le enviaba los paquetes a la aplicacion a pesar de que no este nadie logon-on, cuando el usuario se logoneaba el servicio cargaba la aplicacion y podia mostrar los mensajes en el escritorio.. Pero en Windows 7 no se puede hacer eso??? =(

_Zorro_ 28-Mar-12 12:12pm

wvelasqu: La verdad que ni idea, seguro que si escribis en Ingles como dice Richard vas a obtener mas ayuda.

Albert Holguin 28-Mar-12 23:40pm

Why can't you do it? ...what part? ...how are you loading the executable? Is it just the UAC issue? The startup option is still there in Windows 7.

Richard MacCutchan 28-Mar-12 12:04pm

Please only use national language to get people to translate into English. This is an international site and this question and any answers may be useful to people in all countries.

_Zorro_ 28-Mar-12 12:12pm

Richard: I knew someone would say that, you're right but sometimes you just want to help on the spot.

National language on an international site... hmmm :) (Just kidding)

wvelasqu 28-Mar-12 12:17pm

ok, thanks

wvelasqu · Answer 2 · 2012-03-28T05:23:00

Solution 2

You are correct about the .exe listening even though no user has logged-on, but if a user logs-on the application must show certain things to the user, but since the .exe is running in the background, I can't get it to interact with the desktop.

Posted 28-Mar-12 5:23am

wvelasqu

Updated 29-Mar-12 4:06am

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_Zorro_ 28-Mar-12 11:53am

Te conteste, pero arriba.

Albert Holguin 28-Mar-12 23:51pm

Why not load a separate exe located in the user's startup directory and use inter-process communications to talk between the applications? You just need a localized client-server (or some other IPC).

wvelasqu 29-Mar-12 10:35am

it's a good idea, but Do you have something where I can read about that???