Starting a windows application from a windows service

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I am trying to start a windows application from a windows Service using the below code

Process.Start(@"filename.exe");

In windows 7 I receive a popup that says, "A program running on this computer is trying to display a message"

you can use windows task scheduler please see [this way](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5307968/how-can-i-run-an-exe-program-from-a-windows-service-using-c/51156657#51156657) . — Rahmat Anjirabi, Jul 03 '18 at 14:13

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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You cannot start an interactive application from a Windows Service. This was changed in Windows Vista and 7.

Some other advice was given in this Stack Overflow answer on the same subject.

When I've needed to do this, I had to change my Windows Service to a Console Application, and invoked it in that manner.

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answered Dec 09 '10 at 13:30

George Stocker

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 27 '14 at 20:07

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A work-around I found for this issue was to use the windows task scheduler. You can schedule the application to run some amount of seconds later by creating a batch file.

answered Oct 27 '14 at 20:07

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 09 '10 at 13:39

At my previous company we had this issue and we wrote a console app that ran in the sys tray and acted as a bridge from the service to the desktop. Basically via remoting (I'd use WCF now of course) we let the service request that the console app start up another application.

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