Unable to start service in window 10 by using NSSM

Question

I have create a small script file to test.

This my script.bat file.

sc create myService binpath= C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\test.bat start= auto 

This is my test.bat file.

echo "Welcome to Wizard"

Problem Statement

I am unable to start the service from control panel Service section.

I get following error.

[SC] StartService FAILED 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

That is why I am using nssm.

NOW what happening is that when I run following command on powershell

.\nssm install myService, I dialogue box appears. I give it the path of my script file and click on install service.

After successfull installation of service. I go to control panel -> Service -> click on start against myService but it get paused and following dialog box appears

1. How can I fix this?
2. Is there anyother way to do it without doing manual steps and not using third party tool.
3. I am doing all this on window 10. Do I need any server to perform this task?

NOTE: I cannot use Always up or window scheduler in my case.

Answer 1

The NSSM behaviour is caused by the script terminating almost instantly. Try the following script:

echo Hello World pause

This should allow the service to start, but you will not necessarily see a console window. Even if you tick 'allow service to interact with desktop', it will not be your desktop that it interacts with!

Windows implements 'session zero isolation' as a security feature, and this essentially prevents services interacting with end user desktops.

In terms of a solution, it's possible to write Windows 'service' applications fairly simply using Visual Studio. It's outside my area of expertise, but based on the Windows applications I'm familiar with, you would generally have a user-mode application running to provide desktop interaction. The user-mode application can interact with services hosted by the service application.