Windows 2008 Task Bar Icon

elswickc · Post by **elswickc** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:20 pm

I recently upgrade to windows 2008. The service is starts, but does not show in the task bar. This means to manage tests I have to lanuh the program answer the questions about starting a second instance. How do I get the hostmonitor icon to show in the task bar?

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:10 pm

Service cannot display anything if you are using Vista or Windows 2008.
We discoused this problem many times...
Lets quote the manual
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Note #3: In some cases Win32 service is unable to interact with desktop. There are 3 most common reasons:
1) You have disabled "Allow service to interact with desktop" option
2) Service is running on remote system and you are using Terminal Service to login to that system
3) You are using Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

It's pretty easy to enable "Allow service to interact with desktop" option but how to manage HostMonitor that is running as service on remote system / on Windows Vista?
There are 2 possible solutions:
- Use Remote Control Console (RCC) that allows you to manage HostMonitor started on local or remote system in service or application mode.
- You may create simple BAT file that will stop service, start HostMonitor in application mode and (after you change settings and terminate application) start service again.
E.g.
net stop hostmonservice
"c:\program files\hostmon\hostmon.exe"
net start hostmonservice
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Regards
Alex

elswickc · Post by **elswickc** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:01 pm

Thanks!

Stoltze · Post by **Stoltze** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:30 am

KS-Soft wrote:2) Service is running on remote system and you are using Terminal Service to login to that system

If you connect with "<address> /admin" (in older version of mstsc /console), you will connect to the console instead of a virtuel console. This way you can see AHM and other programs running.. Of course, AHM still needs to interact with the desktop....