taking a screen using the windows service

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I am using windows 7 and visual studio 2010 to create a monitoring software. I have to create windows services , which take the screen shot of the desktop on the client and save it to the local system. The windows service is working fine in Windows XP but i does not work in windows 7. It takes blank screenshots with Please provide me some help on this

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Sardar Khan

Posted 17-Nov-11 20:46pm

sardar khan2008

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Mehdi Gholam 18-Nov-11 2:51am

A windows service by definition has no UI and therefore cannot take screen shots.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Nov-11 2:55am

In principle, it can communicate with another application in the same system which can. I don't know if such application can automatically started by the Windows Service on Windows 7, maybe not. How do you think?
--SA

BillWoodruff 18-Nov-11 8:25am

Hi Mehdi, I can imagine a Service with no UI, that, based on a timer firing, takes a screen shot and saves it to disk.

espariz 23-Jul-23 10:46am

Hello,
I'm trying use something similar on Windows XP.
Can you share the code with us?

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Howard Robinson · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-20T06:08:00

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Since you are working with Windows 7 you should be aware of "Session 0 Isolation", which will prevent your Windows Service from easily working with an interactive session.

Posted 20-Nov-11 6:08am

Howard Robinson