Passing Parameters to a Windows Service?

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I have a hand-coded service running without parameters but would now like to pass a parameter to influence its action.

Docs say the main procedure is prototyped thus : Main(LONG dwArgs,LONG lpszArgs)

but where do the parameters come from, I can’t see where to specify them when creating the service?

I stumbled across some text saying “parameters are passed by the calling code” implying that this is outside the OS service manager.

Has anybody accessed lpszArgs?

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Hi Julian,

In the registry you will see the instruction for starting your service. Like this:
[HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Service\MyService]
“ImagePath”:\C:\Projects\MyService\bin\MyService.exe parameter1 parameter2

You can enter the requested values in parameter1 parameter2 …

Regards,

Henk