'How do I give my windows service admin rights

I have a winform that allows me to enable and disable all my 8 year old's network adapters using this code:

protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
    {
        //start timer
        SelectQuery query = new SelectQuery("Win32_NetworkAdapter","NetConnectionStatus=2");
        ManagementObjectSearcher search = new ManagementObjectSearcher(query);
        foreach (ManagementObject result in search.Get())
        {
            NetworkAdapter adapter = new NetworkAdapter(result);

            adapter.Disable();
            enabled = false;

        }

        InternetCheckTimer.Start();
    }

This code works fine on a win form assuming I am running with admin. I have never written a win service before so the problem might be else where, I am able to install using installutill and attach the debugger to the process, however no break points are hit. I have tried starting and stopping the process and cannot get the debugger to attach so I might be doing that wrong as well... Right now I am assuming that the code is running and I am too stupid to get the debugger working. That said, I think my code requires the service to have admin like the form did in order to work.

Sorry if this is unclear, I will do my best to clear it up if you need more information.

c++sharpwindows-services


Solution 1:[1]

Use user and password for the service, and assure that the user that start the service has all rights needed for the application to run. An other possibility if you can control the service is to use impersonation, see: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/4051/Windows-Impersonation-using-C.

Solution 2:[2]

You can try couple of options.

  1. Add app.manifest
  2. After installing window service set the service permission to run at Highest Privilege and also you can set the user name and password for the logged in user.

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Solution 1 ctescu
Solution 2 Nipun Ambastha

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