You can't start a disabled service, it is disabled. You have to set it to Manual or Automatic before it can be started.
Neil -----Original Message----- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: 02 April 2009 20:59 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to start an existing service Hey Phil - I'm wondering if ServiceControl can work on a Disabled service, though. OP seemed to indicate the service is disabled by default, which I see on my XP box here as being the case, too. I'm writing a sample install that tries to start a Disabled service to see how it reacts. Chad -----Original Message----- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@wonderware.com] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 12:00 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to start an existing service You should be able to do this with a ServiceControl element. I don't know the WiX details, but the ServiceControl table in MSI is not directly connected to installing that service. Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Gremlin [mailto:postingpl...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 4:35 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to start an existing service Hello, I want to start the service NetTcpPortSharing which is installed (and set to disabled) with the installation of the .Net 3.5 framework. How can I start the service in my installation? Is it possible with the ServiceInstall/ServiceControl - tags? I tried this, but I got an error... <Component Id="SERV_NetTcpPortSharingService" Guid="{138CAB80-7529-45aa-9CA5-283397A3FCDF}"> <ServiceInstall Id="ServInst_NetTcpPortSharingService" Name="NetTcpPortSharing" Start="auto" Type="ownProcess" ErrorControl="normal"/> <ServiceControl Id="ServCont_NetTcpPortSharingService" Name="NetTcpPortSharing" Start="both" Wait="yes" Stop="uninstall"/> </Component> Thank's, Chris -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/How-to-start-an-existing-service-tp2574657p2574657. html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
