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Run process during windows shutdown

I have a Win32 service, that needs to run a .NET executable on service stop (for cleanup reasons). I recently discovered that the cleanup never happens on shutdown, because the process creation gets blocked by OS. Does anyone know a way to override this? Process, I am spawning is not invasive and should only run a fraction of a second.

Solution

  • The only way I could find to do it was: pre-create a child process suspended, and them un-suspend it on shutdown.