How to detect WindowsService properties changes?

Question

How to detect change of the ServiceStartMode property in WindowsService ? At start is Automatic , but later someone change it to Manual - how to catch this event?

Answer 1

You can't detect a change of service StartMode as there are no events linked to that particular situazion... however, using System.Management features you can at any time check the current StartMode of a service and eventually change it. Please, have a look at this very good snippet which implements a full features class which allow you to manipulate this.