posted 15 years ago
Windows services rarely have an API that is visible to a user who happens to sign on. I don't know much about services (note: that isn't the topic of any of the forums here) but I vaguely recall that there is something you have to do to a service to make it have a visible user interface.
Personally I wouldn't do that as I wouldn't expect it to work. I would write the service as a server with no GUI and provide a client with a GUI that could send requests to the server.
Edit: I looked at the dialog for configuring a Windows service. I see that it has a checkbox "Allow service to interact with desktop".
[ June 23, 2008: Message edited by: Paul Clapham ]