Will this survive an update?

[vefatica]

Will this survive an update? It lets me (unelevated) start and stop the Everything service.

subinacl /service Everything /grant=zz\vefatica=TOP

If updating merely stops the service and the client, replaces Everything.exe, and starts them again, I suspect the answer is "Yes". If updating uninstalls/installs the service, I suspect "No".

I don't use Everything often ... only when experimenting. So I don't want it running all the time. After the command above, toggling between using Everything and not using it is relatively easy (without a UAC prompt).

iff "%1" eq "1" then
   net start everything
   delay 2
   start g:\tc20\everything.exe -startup
elseiff "%1" eq "0" then
   start g:\tc20\everything.exe -quit
   net stop everything
endiff

 

[MaartenG]

Will this survive an update? It lets me (unelevated) start and stop the Everything service.

subinacl /service Everything /grant=zz\vefatica=TOP

If updating merely stops the service and the client, replaces Everything.exe, and starts them again, I suspect the answer is "Yes". If updating uninstalls/installs the service, I suspect "No".

Just checked the installer; it does a:

sc stop Everything
sc delete Everything

So, bad luck, I guess.

EDIT: Except when you choose "Do not install Everything Search (No NTFS Indexing)" during installation. But that's not an update, is it :-)

 

[vefatica]

Just checked the installer; it does a:

sc stop Everything
sc delete Everything

So, bad luck, I guess.

Thanks for checking. I don't know how to do that.
It maybe bad luck, but I'm not out of luck. With some Scheduled Task trickery (run on demand, highest privileges) I can do it anyway, without a UAC prompt.

iff "%1" eq "1" then
        schtasks.exe /run /tn StartEverything
        delay 2
        start g:\tc20\everything.exe -startup
elseiff "%1" eq "0" then
        start g:\tc20\everything.exe -quit
        schtasks.exe /run /tn StopEverything
endiff

 

[MaartenG]

Yes, that wiil work.
(I run/test Everything "on demand" without the service and un-elevated)