Change starttype of windows-service

[DeltaVictorLima]

Hello,

I wrote an AutoIt-script which reads

"HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess", "Start"

If this entry = 4 (disabled), I change it to "3" (manual).

Then I execute the following command to start the Windows-Firewall:

RunWait( @ComSpec & ' /c net start SharedAccess', @ScriptDir)

That doesn't work (I get returncode 2)

But when I manually change the start-type from "disabled" to "manual" before starting my script, it can start the Windows-Firewall, (returncode=0)

Can somebody please tell me what else I have to do to sucessfully change the starttype of the Windows-Firewall from "disabled" to "manual"? Changing the registry-entry doesn't seem to be enough.

Hon.

[herewasplato]

Welcome to the forum.

It has been a while since I looked into doing what you are doing with services. You can either use this User Defined Function (UDF) as is...

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6487

... or study it to see what parts of it you can use.

Post back if you have trouble with the UDF or your script.

[DeltaVictorLima]

Thanks, I'll try that.