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Service Protection Program keeps re-scheduling
Something keeps re-scheduling SPP, asking for my windows activation key. SPP then performs it's usual procedure, checks my key, and accepts it. Then the (thing) wants to know again! It's a snowball ...
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Synergy not stopping service completely
I'm using Synergy 1.4.12 (server) on windows 8 pro 64bit.
I'm getting a bug when I try to stop the service. If I click stop in to window or by right-clicking the startup icon, the Synergy service ...
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Viewing Windows SCM's .EVM files
I have developed some windows services and noticed that at some point in time, the Windows service manager will stop and resume my service without notifying anything.
I know Windows SCM logs are ...
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When System PID 4 is locking a file or folder, How can I determine what program/process/service is locking it without guesswork?
(This question is not a duplicate of Find out which process is locking a file or folder in Windows I am asking specifically about when PID-4 is locking it (besides the fact that i'm saying without ...
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Can't connect to local MySQL instance when ran as service
I've been running a local MySQL server for development purposes lately and for some reason never got around to running it as a service so I was constantly starting it up using the mysqld.exe every ...
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How to temporarily disable a service running as Local System?
I am using Windows 7 and want to temporarily shutdown a service running as Local System. I am looking for a way to do it without having to reboot into Safe Mode but had no luck (even searching Google) ...
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Fail to start sppsvc service in Windows 11
I bought a new laptop with an Nvidia GeForce 4070 GPU and an I7 12700 CPU. After installing Microsoft Office products, the service sppsvc stopped working as a result the Office apps raised the error &...
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Windows 10 Service "Log On As" User Gives Error "Access Denied"
I am trying to start a service automatically but log on with a specific credential.
Here is an example:
The specific service does NOT matter, as the problem happens with any service, namely that I ...
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Windows 10 reenables and runs disabled services automatically
my company gave me a computer with Windows 10 Pro on it. Now I want to disable some of the unneeded Windows services (like SMS Agent Service, Telemetry, Diagnostics, etc). Only I have administrative ...
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Synergy installer is unable to start service on Windows 10
When I try to install Synergy on Windows 10, it gives me this error: "Service 'Synergy' (Synergy) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services."
Synergy and ...
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Does Windows ever stop services when resuming from sleep?
I'm running on windows 8.
Occasionally, when I resume from sleep, my service gets a stop request through the SCM (call to SvcCtrlHandler with SERVICE_CONTROL_STOP). I wasn't able to trace the source ...
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Can I assume that Task scheduler service will always be running on windows machine?
The requirement is to run an executable periodically in windows. So I assumed it will be better to do it by creating a task in task scheduler.
But I am afraid for any reason will the task scheduler ...
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Why can I move the executable of a service but not delete it?
I am learning about privilege escalation and dangerous service configurations on Windows.
Here is the thing:
A service has a world writeable executable myservice.exe (baaaad
idea).
The service is ...
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services.exe intermittently using 10-20 GB of memory when Visual Studio 2013 is running
When I run Visual Studio 2013 on one of my machines, I notice that services.exe will intermittently consume 10-20 GB of memory. This happens randomly and seems to have no relation to anything I do; I ...
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Windows services: force windows to attempt to start service after failed attempts
Appears that after a Windows service fails to start once or twice (with the ~"Service failed to respond in a timely fashion" error) then Windows ceases even trying to start the service and just ...
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