Windows Service not launching as local session

Question

Am working on Creating windows service and launching an exe application through this,

from this link i have created a windows service Windows Service

But when i create a setup and deployment and then if i install, the exe which am calling from the service is launched as LOCAL SERVICE.

Still i can the xxx.exe in task manager as LOCAL SERVICE.

I cant figure even with this help : Launching GUI from windows service

How can i launch this exe as the local username which i have logged in ?

Answer 1

You have a number of options for creating a process that runs under a different user from the parent process:

• CreateProcessAsUser or CreateProcessWithTokenW. These require you to obtain a primary token that represents a user, calling either LogonUser or DuplicateTokenEx.
• CreateProcessWithLogonW which allows you to specify the user name and password as parameters.

However, if you want the process that you create to appear on the interactive desktop, you need to do quite a bit of work. This article covers the details: Launching an interactive process from Windows Service in Windows Vista and later.