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Set Windows Error Reporting (WER) service to "disabled"?
For non-ESU Windows 7 devices, is there any reason to have Windows Error Reporting (WER) service set to anything except "disabled"?
After all, those systems will not be receiving any more updates ...
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What can cause a Windows Service startup type to change?
Remote workers at my company use a program to capture and store data. The program has a background service called the "scheduler" that connects to and transfers data back up to our home office on a ...
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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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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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Need command to edit a service's log on to Local System Account
When you right click a service in services.msc and go to properties and Log On, it lets you change it to Local System account, how can I switch to that setting with a batch command, I want to switch ...
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How do I add a dependency to an existing service?
Hi there I was researching a problem for a program I have on my computer. The program relies on the SSDP Discovery service to be started first BUT it is not added as a dependency...
I would like to ...
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Can I configure windows search service only for Outlook, but NOT SearchIndexer?
Outlook 2010 seem to rely it's search features on windows search, in windows 7. I want to disable SearchIndexer.exe from indexing my hard drives, permamently. However I wish to keep the search ...
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Restart windows service on LAN machine
I got administrative rights on the target machine, all the credentials, fully trusted network without firewall and antivirus software. I got windows 8 on the target machine and windows 7 on calling ...
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Web Access Control Service - what is it for?
What is the Web Access Control Service (wacsvc.exe) for?
Can I safely disable it?
Because every once in a while, it goes crazy, and uses 99% CPU until it is restarted.
This is on a Windows 7 Home ...
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Best GUI for creating and editing Windows Services [closed]
I want to create windows services with a GUI, but the built-in windows services manager doesn't do this. What is a good windows software that does this well?
What I want to do is open the program, ...
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Audio services in windows 7
In an attempt of blocking a viral service on my system (which was restarting my system automatically for every 30 seconds), I disabled all the services, and later enabled trustworthy services only.
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Edit windows service to log on as specific user using a batch script
I have several programs that are installed as a service.
By default, after installation, the service runs as Local System Account.
I can change it through services.msc, service properties to the ...
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