Installing a service on a user account

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Hello,

My problem is that, I wrote a small service that will clean my several "cache" folders (which I use while I'm working and get cluttered pretty badly) every time I open my computer. It should be working just fine, because I tested it as a Windows Application and it works fine. But I want this to work automatically every time I open my computer and I want this to be done at the background, without notifying me.

I created the service and added the Project Installer but I cannot install the thing because I do not have a Full-Access privilege account. I'm an ordinary user on this machine.

I've tried to set the ServiceProcessInstaller's Account property to User and LocalService but I couldn't manage to install it in neither ways. System.Security.SecurityException throws this exception every time I try to "installutil" it, then it rolls back the installation.

Is there a way to manipulate my privileges for just this once and install this service? I may need to install various other services in the future, and this appears to be a serious problem for me.

I'm fairly new with Windows Services and I would really appreciate any help.

Thanks.

Posted 21-Jul-11 21:41pm

tuncdogukan

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Thomas Mack · Answer 1 · 2011-07-21T21:43:00

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Have you tried adding it as a Windows Task? You can configure it to run every 24 hours or at every boot from there. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zt39148a%28v=vs.80%29.aspx[^] What OS? Windows 7? Vista? XP?

Posted 21-Jul-11 21:43pm

Thomas Mack

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Jul-11 0:28am

Makes sense, my 5. Actually, this is still a Windows Service, only the one which is already available.
--SA

Thomas Mack 23-Jul-11 2:50am

I develop a small piece of software to run like this but I didn't create it as a service. Just a command prompt, pops up, closes. Of course this is on a server and you might not want that. Good luck.