How can i terminate a Services using other service [modified]

[Kotesh N]

When a Service called " A " is running in our system. I want to terminate that particular Service using the other Service name " B ". or It is possible to Terminate a Service. Kindly help in this matter. Regards, Chinna -- modified at 6:22 Thursday 11th January, 2007

[neilsolent]

OpenService(), ControlService()

cheers, Neil

[Hamid Taebi]

See Starting a Service in Windows XP[^]

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[Kotesh N]

Thank you for valuable suggestion, but trhe above functions Service could not terminate. its Open a particular Service and ControlService means it send a reguest to the handler to enable the options of Start, Restart, Stop & etc.... i want to Terminate a running Service. Regards, Chinna

[Kotesh N]

Thank you for valuable suggestion, I want to Terminate a running Service. Regards, Chinna

[Hamid Taebi]

And also see http://www.codeproject.com/system/AMFSServiceManager.asp http://www.codeproject.com/system/serviceskeleton.asp[^]

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[neilsolent]

What's the difference between stopping and terminating a service? To stop a service use ControlService() with a SERVICE_CONTROL_STOP for dwControl.

cheers, Neil