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mrtaikandi
mrtaikandi

Reputation: 6968

How can I find the location of exe that runs as a windows service in run-time?

How can I find the location of exe that runs as a windows service in run-time?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7953

Answers (8)

tomsee
tomsee

Reputation: 101

Use a registry look-up:

e.g.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\' + ServiceDisplayName;

then read ImagePath value.

Upvotes: 10

a_mole
a_mole

Reputation: 525

For native windows code: GetModuleFileName(NULL...) in the EXE (not in a DLL loaded by the service, for example).

Upvotes: 0

Matt Dillard
Matt Dillard

Reputation: 14863

If you're not using .NET, the most straight-forward way is to use Win32's ::QueryServiceConfig() function. This will give you the path name, the display name, and all sorts of other information about the service.

Upvotes: 0

PhiLho
PhiLho

Reputation: 41162

Programmatically or with a tool?

In the latter case, I recommend using Sysinternals' Process Explorer: it shows all running processes, including services, and one of the fields is the command line used to run the process, including full path.

Their command line utility, PsService, can be useful too.

Upvotes: 4

P Daddy
P Daddy

Reputation: 29547

.NET - Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location (others have suggested Application.ExecutablePath, but this requires a reference to System.Windows.Forms, which a service normally doesn't need)

Native - GetModuleFileName(NULL, ...)

Upvotes: 2

user38230
user38230

Reputation: 675

Usually they run under windows\system32 even though you may have installled it on another drive

Upvotes: -3

MusiGenesis
MusiGenesis

Reputation: 75396

If this is .NET, you want Application.ExecutablePath (if you're trying to get the running windows service's own application path). If you're trying to get the path of some other running windows service, that's a different story.

Upvotes: 1

Harry Lime
Harry Lime

Reputation: 29576

If your executable attaches itself to a particular port you could parse the output from

netstat -ab

Probably not the most attractive solution though.

Upvotes: 0

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