How to disallow a windows service stop

Question

I have some security related service running on my machine (start type = automatic) In the service control manager, the stop/restart commands are grayed out.

I was wondering how can I develop such service for which the stop operation is disallowed.

Note that I am logged in as an administrator

Answer 1

All you need is to disallow your service to recieve stop requests.

• If you are writing service in C/C++ you should not specify SERVICE_ACCEPT_STOP flag when calling SetServiceStatus (see SERVICE_STATUS for details).

• If your are using .NET, set ServiceBase.CanStop to false.