Changing How A Known Service Starts

[Chimaera]

Hi all

this is something that i was asked to include into a program i run to remove unnecessary statups

They want me to also turn the related services to start only when needed as well as the services are still running and taking resources.

Now i had a look here

And thought that would be a good start but it errors with Const errors for e.g.

C:\Users\J\Desktop\Services\Services.au3(59,37) : ERROR: $READ_CONTROL previously declared as a 'Const'.
Global Const $READ_CONTROL = 0x20000
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
C:\Users\J\Desktop\Services\Services.au3(60,34) : ERROR: $WRITE_DAC previously declared as a 'Const'.
Global Const $WRITE_DAC = 0x40000
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
C:\Users\J\Desktop\Services\Services.au3(61,36) : ERROR: $WRITE_OWNER previously declared as a 'Const'.
Global Const $WRITE_OWNER = 0x80000
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
C:\Users\J\Desktop\Services\Services.au3(66,25) : ERROR: $STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED previously declared as a 'Const'.
          $WRITE_OWNER )
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

I am only interested in changing a service and im trying with this

_Service_Change(  "AdobeARMservice", $SERVICE_NO_CHANGE, $SERVICE_DEMAND_START )

which if i read it right is AdobeARMservice, No change to service type, just change to demand start only

Any thoughts where im going wrong?

And or is there a simpler way to do this? as i will have more than one service to mod

[BrewManNH]

If you look at post #63 in that thread you linked, it will tell you why you're getting the errors, and how to fix it.

[Chimaera]

Blow me down i sat and read a load of it but more near the start

Cheers BrewManNH good catch and it worked fine

One other question

Is this the easiest way to do this?

[JFX]

Is there any problem with using the good old sc.exe?

sc config "servicename" start= demand

[Chimaera]

Is there any problem with using the good old sc.exe?

sc config "servicename" start= demand

Not come across that one, does it need run or runwait etc? to call it?

[JFX]

I prefer Shellexecute if no stdout or piping is needed

ShellExecuteWait('sc.exe', 'config "servicename" start= demand')

PS: ShellExecuteWait return 0 on success here

PS2: the space behind = is wanted

Edited February 13, 2012 by JFX

[Chimaera]

Thx for that JFX

Because i have more than item to change i decided to try and use an array.

I have this so far, it runs but it doesn't make any changes, anyone know why?

; =======================================================
Global $aPathKeys[3] = [2, "AdobeARMservice", "Nero BackItUp Scheduler 4.0"]
; =======================================================
For $g = 1 To $aPathKeys[0]
  If @OSVersion = "WIN_7" Then
   ShellExecuteWait('sc.exe', 'config $aPathKeys[$g] start= demand', "", "", @SW_HIDE)
   Sleep(100)
  EndIf
Next

Ive checked with _ArrayDisplay($aPathKeys) after the @OSVersion line and the array of 2 items definatly exists

EDIT

Getting a little further with this

_ArrayDisplay($aPathKeys)
   ShellExecuteWait('sc.exe', 'config ' & $aPathKeys[$g] & ' start= demand', "", "", @SW_HIDE)

For some reason the _ArrayDisplay windows opens twice, is it not reading them into 1 array?

Only problem it changes the first entry of the array and leaves the second one unchanged, how do i get it to change both?

Edited February 14, 2012 by Chimaera

[JFX]

You still missing the quotes around the service name.

ShellExecuteWait('sc.exe', 'config "' & $aPathKeys[$g] & '" start= demand', "", "", @SW_HIDE)

Edited February 14, 2012 by JFX

[Chimaera]

No wonder i get confused

How come the "" around the array items doesnt cover the ones you added?

Is it because in the sc params it has to exist within the line?

Its working now anyway thx for the pointers

Edited February 14, 2012 by Chimaera