spooler restart through StartService

[ferrari123]

Hi,
In one application , when i debug the application it is able to restart the spooler. But when i use cmd line ( basically just run the application) it just fails.
can anybody give me some idea about the sureshot way of restarting the spooler ?

 

[MKuiper]

Why does it fail? Did you call GetLastError to find out why it failed? It may be a matter of privileges (GetLastError retuns 5 (access denied) in this case). Are you debugging as an administrator and running it from the command line as a user, not being an administrator?

Marcel

 

[ferrari123]

It doesnt fail actually. StartService returns successfully.
After that if i check the status of service it is SERVICE_START_PENDING. But when the application is closed, spooler is still stopped.