How do you change the configuration of a windows service using .net after the service been installed? In particular, I want to ensure that a given service is set to auto-start.

"Phil Roue" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thanks, David. The service is SQL Agent, which we are presuming to have
> already been installed independently of our own software.
>
> We need to ensure that SQL Agent starts automatically, and want to set
this
> property ourselves programmatically. This is possible using the Windows
> SDK, but I was hoping it can be done through .net as well.

WMI should be able to do this. Look at the System.Management namespace.
There are probably some examples somewhere, but I don't have any to give
you.