Path to the executable of a windows service.

Question

How can I get the path to the executable of a specific windows service from another program ? Unfortunately the class ServiceController (System.ServiceProcess) doesn't provide a method or property for that !

Answer 1

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1045065/how-to-get-service-executable-file-path

Answer 2

You can obtain them from here using the Registry in HKLM:

 System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Service

Look for the ImagePath value.

Answer 3

There's always the WMI class Win32_Service as described here, specifically the PathName.

Something like this might work:

ManagementClass mc = new ManagementClass("Win32_Service");
foreach(ManagementObject mo in mc.GetInstances())
{
    if(mo.GetPropertyValue("Name").ToString() = "NameYouWant")
    {
        return mo.GetPropertyValue("PathName").ToString();
    }
}