Managing Windows Services with Visual Studio 2005 - Properties of the Service
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You may access the property window by right clicking the name of the service, which brings up the properties window as shown in the next picture. Currently the start up type has been set automatically when the Windows program is executed. This window also shows the path to the executable and the file name of the executable. Additionally you may start, pause and stop from this window. The service name is the name recognized by the system and may be different from the display name.

LogOn tab of the Services
When you click on the LogOn tab you bring up the LogOn related items of the service as shown in the next window. The picture shows the default option for LogOn as Local System Account.

This may be changed to a user account by choosing the other option, which gives you access to the users by using the Browse... button.

The Hardware profile is the hardware profile that you may set up by using Control Panel--> System and choosing the Hardware tab in the System Properties window as shown.

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