VB6 Disable Service

[Brent113]

How can I disable a running service from visual basic 6. It's not a system service, just something like the iPod service, or the AOL service, for example.

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Brent

 

[gmmastros]

You can use VB to issue command prompt commands. So, all you need to do is to determine how to stop the services from a command prompt. Once you do that, you can automate it with VB.

For example, if you wanted to stop a SQL Server service, you could do...

Call Shell("cmd /c net stop MSSqlServer")



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[Brent113]

Hmm, I forgot you can stop services from cmd, thanks a lot for remembering for me!

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[mattKnight]

To disable a service, you need to use the following API calls,
OpenSCManager
OpenService
ChangeServiceConfig
CloseServiceHandle


Basically, You need top open a handle to the ServiceControlManager, then use that handle to get a handle to the service you want. You can change the service config according to your needs, then close the handles as required

Take Care

Matt
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[Brent113]

That's what I was looking for, thanks.

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[Brent113]

But what about the registry: I googled and found pretty much what I was looking for.

In CurrentControlSet, you can set the start type to DWORD 4 to disable it. I have more experience with the registry, so I'll take that route.

Thanks again to everyone that helped.

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There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those that know binary and those that don't

Brent