Hi All,
Is it possible to launch an exe (or any kind of service) or any
application through sys file which is loaded statically at the time of
booting.
If possible then what is the mechanism to do that?
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You should use an auto-start service and do this from user mode. Doing this from kernel mode is complicated and undocumented. There are many aspects (figuring out the right TS session, winstation, desktop, connecting to CSRSS, ?) that stand in the way of your doing this from a Win32 program directly from kernel mode, even if you reverse engineered the raw process creation APIs.
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Hi All,
Is it possible to launch an exe (or any kind of service) or any application through sys file which is loaded statically at the time of booting.
If possible then what is the mechanism to do that?
Thanks & Regards,
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> Is it possible to launch an exe (or any kind of service) or any application through sys file
If the .exe you want to launch is a third party utility then using event mechanism between driver and service, you can launch third party .exe through service when driver will set the event.
It’s much simpler 
Include the usermode service (exe) into dependencies
of a non-PnP driver (the latter also is a service, as
has been recently established).
So when you start the driver via “net start”, the exe will
start as well. Works on XP SP3, haven’t tested on other systems.
And there are other similar tricks.
Happy new year!
–PA
Skywing wrote:
You should use an auto-start service and do this from user mode. Doing
this from kernel mode is complicated and undocumented. There are many
aspects (figuring out the right TS session, winstation, desktop,
connecting to CSRSS, ?) that stand in the way of your doing this from a
Win32 program directly from kernel mode, even if you reverse engineered
the raw process creation APIs.
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Hi All,
Is it possible to launch an exe (or any kind of service) or any
application through sys file which is loaded statically at the time of
booting.
If possible then what is the mechanism to do that?
*Thanks & Regards,*
*Maitri Ved**|** E-DRM **|** **Tech Mahindra*
Oberoi Garden Estate, Chandivali, Mumbai - 72
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> Is it possible to launch an exe (or any kind of service) or any application through sys file which is
loaded statically at the time of booting.
No.
CreateProcess does lots of undocumented things, so this is hardly doable.
The proper solution depends on whether the EXE needs any UI.
If yes - then the solution is to register the EXE in Run key same way as, say, Live Messenger is registered. You cannot show UI from the OS logon screen anyway.
If no - then service is the solution.
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Maxim S. Shatskih
Windows DDK MVP
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