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Re: Service spawns Process - EnumWindows problem

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From: Paul
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:30
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Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:

> 
> "Paul" <camrad@internode.on.net> wrote in message
> news:46a0a522$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> 
> > Each of the above is started with
> > if (CreateProcess(...
> <snip>
> 
> Which means that each process is going to run in the context of the
> user account that the service is running it.  By default, that is the
> SYSTEM account.  Also, unless you are filling in the lpDesktop member
> of the STARTUPINFO structure, then each process is going to run in
> the context of the service's workstation as well, which is hidden and
> does not have access to the workstation that the user logs into.

I was not setting any value for lpDesktop. Setting this to 
"WinSta0\\Default" in the Service and the Guardian fixed my problem in
this instance. Reading the M$ web on this subject presents other
possibilities I have not yet explored.
> 
...snip

Thanks for you help on this. Got me going in the right direction. Much
appreciated.

cheers
Paul
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