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Enable or Disable Windows Service depending on which user logs on
So I want to disable or enable a service depending on which user logs on, as it's a service that only needs to be active for a specific user, and otherwise gobbles up unnecessary system resources.
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Windows 10 service called AarSvc_70f961. What is it and how could I disable it?
Recently I noticed a service in my windows 10 (v.1903, non-insider) installation with these properties:
Service name: AarSvc_70f96
Display name: Agent Activation Runtime_70f961
Description: Runtime ...
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How to change applications name after starting the applications. windows
Hey i'm wondering if it's possible to rename a proccess's name after opening it, i'm not talking about display name (the window title), I mean say for example google chrome. If I opened it, it'd be ...
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What Windows 7 services are responsible for automatically increasing free disk space?
On a Windows 7 box, the system partition is low on free space. It typically hovers around 4GB free.
About once a week, I've been told the system partition "magically" increases its free space to ...
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How to kill Windows Update Medic Service
Having extreme difficulties getting Windows to stop auto-restarting my workstation after updates. I've lost so much work I don't even care anymore, I just want to disable the whole thing.
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Windows Service dependency not respected
I have two windows services installed in Windows 7 environment:
Tomcat Webserver
MariaDB database
These services have dependency relationship, Tomcat depends on MariaDB.
When I shutdown windows I ...
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Delivery Optimization Service can't be disabled after the last Windows 10 Update
I'm always disabling this service because it keeps using my whole bandwidth.. but after the October update, there is like a restriction or something because when I tried to disable it using the ...
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svchost.exe eating CPU: which of these services can be the cause?
Thanks to these awesome instructions I was finally (!) able to identify the services of the svchost.exe process which eats so much of my CPU on my Windows XP Professional SP3 (Version 2002):
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Scheduling starting a service before another service
I have a service that needs to be started only BEFORE another 3rd party service who's Startup Type is Automatic.
How is this possible.
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Start and stop Windows services using PowerShell
I'm running both Apache (as a Windows service) and IIS 10, and would like to be able to toggle each of these services on or off, as they both grab port 80, and I don't wish to configure either to use ...
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What determines which services svchost.exe hosts?
When viewing processes under Process Explorer, there is services.exe, which has several svchost.exe subprocesses. Each of these hosts one or more services. However, selection of services in single ...
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Unable to start service in window 10 by using NSSM
I have create a small script file to test.
This my script.bat file.
sc create myService binpath= C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\test.bat start= auto
This is my test.bat file.
echo "Welcome to Wizard"
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Why Superfetch is enabled after restarting computer?
I had disabled the Superfetch from services.msc but it was enabled by itself after restarting the computer. I don't want to use it. How do I disable it completely?
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OpenSSH in Windows PE 10
I'm using WinPE10 (10586), that I've built using ADK10. I was going to install SSH Server in it. I've found only one suitable: OpenSSH.
But discovered, that I need sc.exe to use this server. I tried ...
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Window's Service set to manual startup, but automatically starting
I have a very strange thing happening on a Windows 10 machine.
I have a Windows service that is set startup manually. I wrote a script that starts the service when on the desktop. Basically a net ...
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