It's not exactly recommended, but in practice it should be easy enough to read this information from HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\TheServiceName in particular the DWORD Start contains the startup type. Note that changing this in the registry directly is unlikely to affect things at least until after a reboot, so it's still good to use the API to apply any changes.
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