Windows 7 system specific services related tasks (as dwm.exe

[leopoldus]

Actions -> Add -> Select Actions -> For Windows NT/2000/XP.
But what about later systems specific services? Say, under Windows 7 I could not find from this list the system service Desktop Window Manager (dwm.exe). Well, AFAIK there was no this service in older Windows NT/2000/XP.

Is there any option to create any RoboTask avtion for such service?

Thanks!

[robotask]

Just tested this on a x64 bit windows 7 enterprise system

the module C:\Windows\System32\dwm.exe is not detected in the service list, yet almost all running services are shown in task manager

Am using Process Explorer 15.23 as Task Manager replacement from sysinternals.com, free download from microsoft

[Oleg]

There is no "Desktop Window Manager" service in Windows 7 or Windows 8 (also server 2008, 2012)
You can see this in service manager (Control panel -> Administrative tools -> Services)
So you can't see such service in the list in RoboTask.
Action editor of Start service (or Stop Service) shows all services registered in your system.

But you can see process DWM.EXE in memory. This process has been started by some another way (not a system service)
See screenshots:


Windows 7 and newer based on NT technology too (as Windows NT4 and Windows 2000) and uses the same interface for system services.

[robotask]

see screenshot, Start, Run, Services.msc and DWM is clearly one of the services started and listed

[leopoldus]

see screenshot, Start, Run, Services.msc and DWM is clearly one of the services started and listed

Yes, it is surely started and listed in OS's services manager window.
But not in the RoboTask's list of the available services (see screenshot in my first post). Why? Is there any way to add this service there?

[Oleg]

Windows 7 have "Desktop Window Manager Session Manager"
But pay attention that the service name is UxSms ("Desktop Window Manager Session Manager" is only display name)

RoboTask can see this. See on screenshot:


However Windows 8 doesn't contain this service:


So you can't see this service on Windows 8. But the process DWM.exe exists in memory.