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How do you kill a Windows Service with Cygwin?

I've found many questions/answers that document how to kill a Windows process in Cygwin, but I'm asking how to kill a Windows 10 service in Cygwin. If the verb "kill" seems out of place for ...
Daniel Kaplan's user avatar
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List of Service Types for Windows Event ID 7045

I'm writing some detection use cases to search for suspicious Windows Services via Windows Event logs, I'm trying to find all of the values for the Service Type field in 7045 events that correspond to ...
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BluetoothUserSupport Service issue

I have a strange problem with Bluetooth on Windows 10. All the latest drivers and Windows updates are installed, services set to 'automatic' run. Bluetooth devices paired and and working well, but ...
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"Windows Error Reporting" is missing from the services' list

I'm a Windows 10 user. Lately I'm dealing with frequent BSOD episodes (more or less twice a day) that don't appear to be triggered by any specific action of mine; actually they happen mostly when I'm ...
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How to check which services are using too much memory

I have a Windows 10 laptop that constantly has high memory usage, even on idle. I did a selective startup with Microsoft and Intel services only, but the memory usage was only marginally lower than ...
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How to start a Windows service with a different working directory than system32

Is there any way to start a service using sc (or any other tool) on Windows and set its working directory to a different one than C:\Windows\system32 (which is the default one) ? I know I can specify ...
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How to Export List of All services and user owner stated on services.msc to csv

I want to export a list with all services and users owners "Log on as" from services.msc In services.msc i can export the details to csv but the results are getting messy. I saw THAT and ...
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How do I enable "Waiting <service>", "Preparing WIndows" login text?

While I am searching google How to enable preparing windows login test/How to enable informative text in my login screen but no luck. I searched in Local Security Policies but it isn't there. In the ...
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Windows Time Service is Missing

I have Windows 10 Pro installed on my PC. After the last update I have a problem with the time as it changes continuously either after startup or while using the PC. Searching online, I noticed that ...
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Cannot enable or restart Windows Firewall

I am trying to fix some problems related to Windows Calculator, Clock, etc., but I encounter an error while trying to run the PowerShell command: Get-AppxPackage -allusers *windowscalculator* | ...
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Create a service in a Linux Subsystem on Windows 10

I installed correctly WSL2, I'm currently running ubuntu subsystem on windows 10 and I would like to create a service to start a program on startup. The problem is that I cannot use systemctl because ...
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started seeing this two services suddenly "CDPUserSvc_604aa" and "cbdhsvc_604aa"

I have just installed windows 10 20H2 on my desktop 3 or 4 days ago and below two services "CDPUserSvc_604aa" and "cbdhsvc_604aa" started showing suddenly, please check below ...
Dhaval Pankhaniya's user avatar
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Error While Trying to Run Local Service with a specific user: The remote server has been paused or is in the process of being started

I want to run a custom process running as local windows service with a specific user I have created instead of Local System account. I have successfully applied Service Logon permissions and Service ...
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Windows 10 Home resets some registry settings on reboot

For firewall purposes I made a copy of svchost.exe called mysvchost.exe and made some services run on mysvchost.exe by editing their ImagePath in the registry (under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\...
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Windows could not start the Windows Search service on Local Computer

I am trying to turn on Windows indexing service by following one of the answer in this question I got this error message: Windows could not start the Windows Search service on Local Computer. ...
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