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Paweł Zięba
Paweł Zięba

Reputation: 11

Windows Services - operating system is shutting down too quickly

Firstly I would like to apologize for my English language. I try to create a Windows Service which run program for BuckUp data when the computer is shutting down. Problem is that the operating system during shutdown to kill my Windows Service before BackUp data is executed by to the end of. I changed the registry value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WaitToKillServiceTimeout to 3600000 but it didn't help, my Windows Service is killed before it is executed. Maybe someone knows how to make the operating system does't kill the Windows Service as quickly to BackUp data could be made. Please help me, I'm waiting for your response. Below I include my code Windows Service:

    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.ComponentModel;
    using System.Data;
    using System.Diagnostics;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.ServiceProcess;
    using System.Text;
    using System.IO;

    namespace backUp_ser
    {
        public partial class Service1 : ServiceBase
        {
            public Service1()
            {
                InitializeComponent();
                this.CanShutdown = true;
            }

            protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
            {
            }

            protected override void OnStop()
            {
            }

            protected override void OnShutdown()
            {
                ProcessStartInfo stratInfo = new ProcessStartInfo();
                stratInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
                stratInfo.FileName = "C:\\Program Files\\Cobian Backup 10\\Cobian.exe";
                stratInfo.Arguments = "list:C:\\Program Files\\Cobian Backup 10\\DB\\MainList.lst -bu -nogui -autoclose";

                Process process = Process.Start(stratInfo);
                process.WaitForExit(360000);
            }
        }
    }

Upvotes: 1

Views: 685

Answers (1)

Aravind
Aravind

Reputation: 11

Apart from your query, I want to remind you that the services are running in a separate logon session and the services won't interact with the logged in desktop session (mostly).

So, you need to intercept the shutdown event in your service code. Then, you need to hold the shutdown event till you complete your backup process. You can hook those Windows events through message pumps/queues. You need to intercept the WM_ENDSESSION/ WM_QUERYENDSESSION events.

This query is already discussed in this post. You can refer that.

Upvotes: 1

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