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Session 0 Help - Service running in session 0 required to play sounds! Possible?
Session 0 Help - Service running in session 0 required to play sounds! Possible?
The scenerio is such that I have a windows service running that is connected to hardware and evertime a person shows a tag it should beep.
This was not a problem in Windows XP , however the 'beep' sound doesnt play in Windows Vista.
Also I have a strange requirement that the end user should not be able to disable the service - hence I cannot run this as an interactive service as well.
My 1st doubt is that can a service in session 0 play sounds as opposed to showing an UI? [Even if allow interaction's in enabled?]
My 2nd doubt is that is there a way to remediate this issue when I want the service to run the service in session 0? I would prefer a quick fix instead a long workaround due to time constraints of the project.
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- Interactive service support is removed in Vista, so you should get ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION when you call Beep. If you want to notify the user, notify in a program that runs on the user's desktop.
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Visual C++ MVP - What happens if no user is logged on and the service still wants to play sound. There are quite a few scenario's around this. For example a service is monitoring a peripheral and if certain events happens it wants to raise attention/inform by playing a sound.
http://www.NathCorp.Com - Then log on a user to hear it. You can also send email /SMS to someone in case they are not near enough.
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Visual C++ MVP - Yes - if having someone logged on always would have been an option - we would not have a problem. The customer in this scenario is looking for the sound to be played (based on events) even if no one is logged in.
http://www.NathCorp.Com - Check if the device supports other interfaces like MCI, DirectSound or Direct Music. If non of those work, you can try writing your own virtual audio driver that has a back door to receive data from your service and redirect audio samples to the physical sound card.
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