Check if service is running?

Question

I need to check if 'Event Log' services in running or not. How to do that?

Answer 1

you can use WMI

Answer 2

Use OpenSCManager(), then OpenService(), then ControlService().

Answer 3

You may execute

>sc query Eventlog

and examine the result.

Answer 4

some example code for using the Win32 API can be found here.