Questions tagged [windows-service]
Windows services, also referred to as NT services, are background service processes run by the Service Control Manager based on the service settings and optionally restarted as needed. Windows services are also capable of being launched on demand, based on other service dependencies.
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How to add dependency on a Windows Service AFTER the service is installed
I have a Windows Service that makes use of a SQL Server database. I don't have control over the installation of the service, but would like to add a dependency on the service to ensure that it starts ...
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How can I automatically restart a Windows service if it crashes?
I have a Windows service that exits unexpectedly every few days. Is there a simple way to monitor it to make sure it gets restarted quickly if it crashes?
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How do I grant start/stop/restart permissions on a service to an arbitrary user or group on a non-domain-member server?
We have a suite of Windows Services running on our servers which perform a bunch of automated tasks independently of one another, with the exception of one service which looks after the other services....
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How do I restart a Windows service from a script?
I have a batch script that looks like:
sc stop myservice
sc start myservice
it errors out because sc doesn't wait till the service is stopped. How do I restart a service with a script?
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How do I increase windows service startup timeout
I have migrated software to a very slow sever. Some software services refuses to startup because of system timeout. How do I increase timeout from default 30 sec.(?) to several minutes?
Thank you in ...
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How do I track CPU Utilization for Window Services?
I am using the windows task manager to track CPU utilization. I notice that my applications are listed but Windows Services are not.
For instance, total CPU usage is listed at 70% but the summary of ...
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How do I configure proxy settings for LOCAL SYSTEM?
If I edit Proxy Settings through the Control Panel, the settings are stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyEnable and ...\ProxyServer. These ...
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How can I programmatically cause a new Windows user's profile to be created?
I'm creating a (local) user for a Windows service to run as. I've got good reasons for not wanting to use NETWORK SERVICE, LOCAL SERVICE, or LOCAL SYSTEM.
I create the user via net user foobar "...
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What is svchost and why are multiple instances of it running?
There's six instances running on my desktop, and probably ten on a server I manage. What is this, and is it vital to system function?
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How to create a service running a .bat file on Windows 2008 Server?
I've created the service using
sc create myService binpath=myservice.bat
But when I start it, it fails with the following error message:
[SC] StartService FAILED 1053:
The service did not ...
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Set service StartType to Automatic - Delayed
Using Set-Service, I'm able to change the StartType of my services between the accepted values of Boot, System, Automatic, Manual, Disabled. Using services.msc, I'm able to set some services to ...
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Windows service trigger start - difference manual vs automatic?
Since Windows Server 2008 R2 (and Windows 7 I think for the client OS) Microsoft has introduced trigger start for services. I do understand difference between automatic, automatic (delayed) and manual ...
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How to start a service with certain start parameters on Windows
How do I start a service with certain parameters? In another question I have found
net start servicename blah
but if I try this, net throws a syntax error at me.
What am I doing wrong?
Edit: To ...
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How can I get the path to a Windows service executable WITHOUT using sc qc?
I need to query a windows service for the path to it's executable via the command prompt. I think the way I would do this is:sc qc myServiceName, but when I do that, I get the following error:
[SC]...
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In a Windows Service, will the Start Parameters be preserved if the Start is of type "Automatic"?
Well the title says it, in a Windows Service, will the Start Parameters be preserved after a reboot if the Start is of type "Automatic"?
Many Thanks
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How to add SSH key to PuTTY Agent at startup in Windows Server?
I need to add a private SSH key to Putty Agent (pagent.exe) every time a Windows server starts up -- before a user logs on interactively. The key is to be used by a service.
If it was a regular user ...
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nginx stop/reload on windows failed for Access is denied
I am running nginx on Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64) as a windows service. I am using Windows Service Wrapper for that. (Actually, I have followed this tutorial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/...
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Show status of a Windows service from the command prompt
Is there any Windows command which will show the status of a single service?
For example, I want to know whether "IIS admin service" is running or not. If it is running the command ouput should be "...
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Problems creating service using sc.exe
I have this command to create a service:
sc create svnserve binpath="\"C:\Program Files (x86)\Subversion\bin\svnserve.exe\" --service --root C:\SVNRoot" displayname="Subversion" depend=tcpip start=...
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How can I back up my recommendation to NOT disable the Windows Firewall service?
I know from direct personal experience that disabling the Windows Firewall service on post-XP systems can lead to all sorts of networking problems, and that the proper way of disabling it is by ...
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Cannot delete an existing service using sc command: The specified service does not exist as an installed service
I want to delete MyNewService, but when I type in
sc delete MyNewService
I simply can't delete it because there is no such servic, due to
"the Specified service does not exist as an installed ...
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Force deletion of Windows service
I have installed a Windows service using the sc create method, then I later used the sc delete method to get rid of it, it then marked the service for deletion.
I made changes to the service and ...
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How do you prevent wuauserv (Windows Update Service) from restarting?
Regarding:
net stop "windows update"
this works for a while but then the service starts again. What is restarting this service and how do I prevent it from doing so?
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How do I grant permissions to remotely start/stop a service using Powershell?
We have a PowerShell script that restarts a service on another computer. When we use PowerShell's built-in service control cmdlets, like so:
$svc = Get-Service -Name MyService -ComputerName ...
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What does exactly mean the "Automatic (Delayed)" mode for a Windows service?
Sorry for the approximative translation from french.
So I understand pretty well what means :
- disabled
- manual
- automatic
But what does mean automatic (delayed) ?
- Does Windows wait for ...
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Windows Service can't access network share
I have a Windows service running on my local machine. It's configured to run under NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE. The program access a network shared drive on a computer in the same subnet. That shared ...
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What is the start order of services in Windows server
I have a Windows Service which is working fine in most of the servers. But in one server, I see that it starts before the network services are started. This is causing the services to hang and as a ...
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VMware Player - Running as a Service
Is it possible to run VMware player as a Windows Service so that a user does not have to be logged in to have the player running?
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How to kill a hung service on Windows 2008R2
I have a Windows 2008R2 server running NSClient++. For some reason the service has got its knickers in a twist and stopped responding to Nagios polling.
When I tried to restart the service the ...
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Running a Windows service under a domain user account
If I run a Windows service on some host under a domain user account, and the password for this account changes at some later point, will the service now fail to start, until you update the password?
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Windows: How to start docker VM att system boot
I'm in a situation where I need to run docker on a windows based build server (I'm normally working with Arch/Debian Linux) and I can't find a way to have the docker VM to start automatically on ...
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SSH Tunnel as a Windows Service [closed]
I want to set up an SSH tunnel to run as a Windows service, I need to be able to set it up using only the command line so this counts out any software that doesn't include a command line version.
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What is SMS Agent Host?
What is SMS Agent Host service (CcmExec)? I have failed to
find this information (e.g. there is no Wikipedia entry) -
besides for information in some error cases on how to
restart this service for ...
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ASP.Net State Service missing from Services
The ASP.net State Service appears to have mysteriously disappeared from our web server's Services list after changing the .Net version in an IIS app pool to v4 and then changing it back to v3.5 again. ...
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Is it possible to use Group Policy to grant the permission to manage Windows services?
Is it possible to use Group Policy to grant the permission to manage Windows services?
I would really like to know if this is even possible, and if so, where do you recommend I look for more ...
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What is the best way to allow a domain user to start and stop services on the machine?
What is the best way to allow a domain user to start and stop services on the machine? The domains user cannot be made admin.
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Failed to connect to the System Event Notification Service
Several end-users try and log into their Windows 7 machine, they get a message, "failed to connect to the windows notification service" and it goes to a black screen and never actually loads their ...
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How to kill Windows service process stuck at starting?
Steps like
Copy service name from service properties
In administrator's command line run:
sc queryex {here paste service name}, mark PID
Run taskkill /f /pid {here paste PID}
do not work, because ...
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Which user should a backup service run as?
I'm working on an application which uses Volume Shadow Copy Service to backup a particular file at regular intervals. This works when run as admin but when I run the service under the "Network Service"...
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How can I restart a windows service remotely using a script?
I have a Python web application running in a CherryPy server, which is running as a windows service. I have a batch file to deploy this application, but I'm still having to remote desktop in to the ...
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Auto-start the SQL Server Agent after a computer restart
I am using the SQL Server Agent to run some jobs every day, but the problem is that whenever the server (the machine itself) is restarted, the SQL Server Agent doesn't automatically start when the ...
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Automate Windows Robocopy with internal changes monitor /MON:1 option
The /MON:1 option works just great and run directory scan if only changes happened. This is something that is not possible to do if robocpy is ran from windows scheduler each 10 min.
Is there a way ...
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Why can a user grant themselves the Log On As A Service right?
This article describes the (relatively laborious) steps you should go through to grant an Active Directory user the Log On As A Service right. However, if I install a service and manually specify my ...
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Can I safely disable WinHttpAutoProxySvc if I don't have a proxy?
I noticed that this service starts and stops regularly seeking for proxies,
but in the service description says that it implements the HTTP client stack.
Is it used for something more than proxy ...
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Windows Application Experience Service
On a Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise server, the event log is reporting event id 7036 "The Application Experience service entered the stopped state" and then later that it has started. This ...
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How do I give a domain user permission to start and stop a Tomcat service?
I realize this is almost identical to this question but the big difference is that the methods described in the MSKB article DO NOT WORK for installed Tomcat services. They work for simple Windows ...
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Apache 2.2 on Windows Server: won't start after attempting to change drive letter of all data and logs
I manage a web server that's running on Windows Server 2008 as a 64bit virtual host. All service software is running independently, and not as part of an AMP stack. The data drive has nearly filled up ...
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Having to run IISRESET twice to start all IIS related services
Seems like when I do IISRESET from command prompt, I'm getting the restart error about 90% of the time. Running IIS7 on Win 2008. But I've seen the same thing with IIS6 and Win2003. Running ...
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Disable windows file shares without losing share config
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We're currently upgrading an old app from running on Windows Server 2003 to running it on Windows Server 2012.
Users and other systems communicate with this system via HTTP (i.e. users ...
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How to change user credentials of windows service from command line?
How to change user credentials of windows service from command line?
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