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Will this survive an update?

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Will this survive an update? It lets me (unelevated) start and stop the Everything service.
Code:
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).
Code:
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
 
Will this survive an update? It lets me (unelevated) start and stop the Everything service.
Code:
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:
Code:
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 :-)
 
Just checked the installer; it does a:
Code:
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.
Code:
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
 

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