[Sample of July 2nd] Windows 7 trigger-start Windows service demo

 

Sample Download : https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CppWin7TriggerStartService-aa4ba476  

Services and background processes have tremendous influence on the overall performance of the system. If we could just cut down on the total number of services, we would reduce the total power consumption and increase the overall stability of the system. The Windows 7 Service Control Manager has been extended so that a service can be automatically started and stopped when a specific system event, or trigger, occurs on the system. The new mechanism is called Service Trigger Event. A service can register to be started or stopped when a trigger event occurs. This eliminates the need for services to start when the system starts, or for services to poll or actively wait for an event; a service can start when it is needed, instead of starting automatically whether or not there is work to do. Examples of predefined trigger events include arrival of a device of a specified device interface class or availability of a particular firewall port. A service can also register for a custom trigger event generated by an Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) provider.

This VC++ code sample shows how to create a trigger-start service that starts when a generic USB disk becomes available. The sample also shows how to create a trigger-start service that starts a service when the first IP address on the TCP/IP networking stack becomes available, and stops a service when the last IP address on the TCP/IP networking stack becomes unavailable. These start and stop events are reported in the Application log.

 

 

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