Service, how to set to disallow termination

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"Allen" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have a service that I want to keep the system from
> being able to terminate with the windows task manager.
>
> Is there a setting that I can set to disable the ability
> to terminate my "Windows Service"?
>
>

You might want to try running it with the SYSTEM account.
Granted, there are still ways of terminating such services, but the casual
user, nor the administrator would be able to terminate it (without special
handling). They'd get "Access denied".

hth

george