WinNT/2000 Service Controller

Environment: VC6, Win2000 SP2

This dialog-based VC++ application can be used to control the services in WinNT/2000. To install, follow these steps and the following code:

1. Open the service control manager and get the handle.
2. Create the service and get the service handle.
3. Close the handles.

SC_HANDLE hSCMD = OpenSCManager(NULL,NULL,
                                SC_MANAGER_CREATE_SERVICE);
SC_HANDLE hService = NULL;
if (g_szAcntName[0] == 0)
{
  hService = CreateService(hSCMD, g_szServName, g_szServName, NULL,
    SERVICE_WIN32_OWN_PROCESS, SERVICE_AUTO_START,
    SERVICE_ERROR_NORMAL, szBinaryPath, NULL,NULL, NULL,
                                        NULL, NULL);
}
else{
  hService = CreateService(hSCMD, g_szServName, g_szServName, NULL,
    SERVICE_WIN32_OWN_PROCESS, SERVICE_AUTO_START,
    SERVICE_ERROR_NORMAL, szBinaryPath, NULL,NULL,
    NULL, g_szAcntName, g_szPassword);
}
CloseServiceHandle(hService);
CloseServiceHandle(hSCMD);
To uninstall, follow these steps and the following code:

Open the service control manager and get the handle.
Open the service and get the service handle.
Delete the service by giving the service handle.
Close the handles.

SC_HANDLE hSCMD = OpenSCManager(NULL,NULL,
                                SC_MANAGER_CREATE_SERVICE);
SC_HANDLE hService = OpenService(hSCMD,g_szServName, DELETE);
DeleteService(hService);
CloseServiceHandle(hService);
CloseServiceHandle(hSCMD);

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