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I am writing a service, in which I want to restrict users from modifying service startup type. How do I do? I have attached a windows service which grays out the startup option.

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  • You would have to start a user level service as a system user. I cannot in good conscious help you with this endeavor.
    – Security Hound
    Commented Jun 17 at 10:58
  • Is "graying out" the real goal? Or is the intent to disable changing the startup type? The Win32 registry has fine-grained security. Just don't give users write access to the startup type.
    – MSalters
    Commented Jun 17 at 12:16
  • Yes, the goal is to restrict user to modify the service startup type. For now, I know the key can be restricted so when user tries to modify the service startup it will show up error. But is there a way to gray out via API like restricting to control the service status (stop, start and pause)
    – pari.dev
    Commented Jun 17 at 13:30
  • AFAIK, there is no public API to allow a user service to grey out its startup type. Microsoft does that for their own system services so users don't mess up the OS. If you don't want users to stop/pause your service, you can handle that in your service code by omitting the SERVICE_ACCEPT_PAUSE_CONTINUE and SERVICE_ACCEPT_STOP controls when calling SetServiceStatus().
    – Remy Lebeau
    Commented Jun 17 at 17:32
  • I also want user to not modify the service startup type too
    – pari.dev
    Commented Jun 18 at 4:28
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