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Jane wang
Jane wang

Reputation: 308

Console window won't hide

I need to stop then restart Windows Update Service but I want the console to close after or not showing at all. I tried everything it says here but the console window still won't go away itself.

  Process process = new Process();
        process.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd";
        process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
        process.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
        process.StartInfo.Arguments = "/C start \"wuauserv\"";
        process.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
        process.StartInfo.WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
        process.Start();
        process.WaitForExit();

Upvotes: 0

Views: 82

Answers (2)

BugFinder
BugFinder

Reputation: 17858

Id suggest instead of your How to stop/Start windows services

Start service

The following method tries to start a service specified by a service name. Then it waits until the service is running or a timeout occurs.

public static void StartService(string serviceName, int timeoutMilliseconds)
{
  ServiceController service = new ServiceController(serviceName);
  try
  {
    TimeSpan timeout = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(timeoutMilliseconds);

    service.Start();
    service.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Running, timeout);
  }
  catch
  {
    // ...
  }
}

Stop service

The following method tries to stop the specified service and it waits until the service is stopped or a timeout occurs.

public static void StopService(string serviceName, int timeoutMilliseconds)
{
  ServiceController service = new ServiceController(serviceName);
  try
  {
    TimeSpan timeout = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(timeoutMilliseconds);

    service.Stop();
    service.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped, timeout);
  }
  catch
  {
    // ...
  }
}

You can then control the service without any console window appearing

Upvotes: 3

Rahul
Rahul

Reputation: 77876

Along with RedirectStandardOutput set RedirectStandardError to true as well

process.startInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
process.startInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;

Also make sure that UseShellExecute must be set to false else there is no point in setting CreateNoWindow = true.

Upvotes: 0

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