Service starting Notepad not showing in tasklist

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I have a Windows Service I am trying to get to work, which is not working
correct, but one of the things it does is start Notepad.exe.

The program seems to be doing this and it shows in the Tasklist, but I don't
see it running. When I kill it from the Tasklist, it starts back up again
(it shows in the Tasklist), but again I can't see it.

Why is that?

Thanks,

Tom
 
tshad said:
I have a Windows Service I am trying to get to work, which is not working
correct, but one of the things it does is start Notepad.exe.

The program seems to be doing this and it shows in the Tasklist, but I don't
see it running. When I kill it from the Tasklist, it starts back up again
(it shows in the Tasklist), but again I can't see it.

Why is that?

Thanks,

Tom
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By default windows services do not interact with the desktop. This is
by design and usually you do not want a service to have a UI.

Chris
 
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