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Author Topic: How can I retrieve the Display Name of service from registry value?  (Read 758 times)

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Offline JohnActive

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How can I retrieve the Display Name of service from registry value?
« on: May 04, 2009, 04:03:04 AM »
 
 
 
In Vista the display name of services shows with the dll name and a numeric parameter value.
 
How can I retrieve the exact display name and description of that
 
 
 
For Example:
 
Registry Path: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services"
Service Name: "AppMgmt"
Display Name in the registry: "@appmgmts.dll,-3250"
Description in the registry: "@appmgmts.dll,-3251"
 
Actual Display name in Services list (Services.msc):  "Application Management"
Actual Description in Services list (Services.msc):  "Processes installation, removal, and enumeration requests for software deployed through Group"
 
 
My doubt is how to get the value "Application Management" from "@appmgmts.dll,-3250"?
 
Could some one please help .....
 
 
 
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Re: How can I retrieve the Display Name of service from registry value?
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2009, 05:10:22 AM »
You would have to query the dll file directly.
This change could be due to a maximum of 1024 characters in a registry key. At least, that is the way it was with XP. Thus, a description could be longer then the key limit of 1k if linked into a dll.
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Re: How can I retrieve the Display Name of service from registry value?
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2009, 07:24:35 AM »
If I understand your question correctly, you want to know how to correlate the Service Name with the Display name with the Library File name. The first two are available in the Service Manangement window (services.msc). Using Application Management as an example, it lists under properties:
Service name: AppMgmt
Display name: Application Mamagement
The Library File name is usually quite closely associated to the Service name, and is found in the Registry listed by the Service name under the Parameters key:
Service Dll       REG_EXPAND_SZ      %Systemroot%\System32\appmgmts.dll

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Re: How can I retrieve the Display Name of service from registry value?
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2009, 02:42:49 AM »
 
 
Dear Coutts / Back Viper,
 
Thank you for the response.
 
 
Black Viper: Could you please get me a sample code to query the DLL get the value.
 
Here for example How will we query to the appmgmts.dll and get the display name?
 
Thank you in advance.
John
 
 
 
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Re: How can I retrieve the Display Name of service from registry value?
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2009, 07:13:49 AM »
Quote from: JohnActive on May 07, 2009, 02:42:49 AM
Black Viper: Could you please get me a sample code to query the DLL get the value.
Sorry, I am not a programmer. :)
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