Services: Fall back to registry for protected configuration changes - #2990
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Description
Problem
Some protected services reject configuration changes through the Service Control Manager even after elevation. The service properties dialog previously reported the failure without providing another path for applying the requested configuration.
Local debug builds could also fail to connect to their elevated phsvc helper when an installed release helper owned the shared port, or when API-build signature validation rejected the unsigned debug executable.
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Registry fallback changes are not observed by the running Service Control Manager. The dialog informs the user that Windows must be restarted before the new service configuration takes effect.