Win32Service and Service Manager

[Dale Strickland-Clark]

David Bolen <db3l at fitlinxx.com> wrote:

>As far as I know you can't.  Dumb question though - the snap-in should
>be sorting and displaying the full display name, so could you be
>looking for the short name instead?
>
>Or perhaps you could also use the 'sc' utility from the resource kit
>or something like psservice from sysinternals to lookup information
>based on the same name you are using with the "net" command and see if
>anything is strange in the display name.  (You can also just do the
>same queries from Python code calling the service functions).
>
>Or, any service should be defined in a key (by short name) in the
>registry under HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services, so you might
>poke around there to locate your entry and see if anything looks amiss
>with its display name.  Maybe there's some strange character or
>something in there that is affecting its display in the MMC.

I've found it - thanks.

I'm bloody sure it wasn't there earlier ;-)

Sodding newbies!
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Dale Strickland-Clark
Riverhall Systems Ltd