Questions tagged [services]
On Windows, services are processes running regardless of users logging in. They provide access and features to different programs or processes. On Mac OS X, services are menu bar and context menu items available from any application that can act on a user's selection, like text or files.
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How can I restart gpg-agent?
Some changes in the GnuPG configuration demands a gpg-agent restart / reboot (according to the doc), but... How can I do that? I tried gpg-agent restart, service gpg-agent restart, but did not succeed....
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Disable a Windows service from the command line
I want to disable a Windows service but I don't want to:
Open the "Services" management console
Scroll to the name of the service
Right-click Properties (or double-click)
Change the Startup Type: to ...
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Disabling Microsoft Antimalware service
I can't disable the Microsoft Antimalware service (MsMpSvc/MsMpEng.exe). I tried using services.msc, but the Startup Type drop-down is grayed out and I can't change it to Disabled nor stop the service....
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How to change path to executable for a Windows Service?
I want to change the path to the executable for a service from the command line.
How can I do that?
I want to run another .EXE from that service's path to executable.
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What's the difference between an Application, a Process, and a Service?
How are these fundamentally different "things" on Windows?
Aren't all running things Processes?
It seems that every Application has an associated process that shuts it down if it is shut ...
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What is the difference between “manual” and “disabled” service in Windows?
Windows services seem to come in three start-up types:
Automatic: seems to mean that it is started at bootup
Manual: seems to mean that it is not started at bootup
Disabled: also seems to mean that ...
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how to kill process in Mac OS X and not have it restart on its own
When I run sudo kill -9 [PID] with the proper process ID, the process stops but then is restarted and has a new PID. I'm trying to kill the mysqld process.
How can I mimic the Activity Monitor in ...
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How to remove MySQL service from Windows
I've removed all MySQL programs from my Win7 64bit desktop and I still have the MySQL service.How can I remove it?
MySQL programs I removed:
MySQL Community Server 5.1
MySQL Community Server 5.5
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Which Google Updater is the one that I should allow to run?
My machine has 5 Google updaters running:
Service: Google Update Service (gupdate)
Keeps your Google software up to date. If this service is disabled or stopped, your Google software will not be ...
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How to monitor a service and restart if stopped in Linux
Actually I'm not so sure whether i should use Shell Scripts, or if there some ways already. But whatever approach we use, i would like to keep a Service running all the time.
Let's say apache2 as an ...
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Remove Windows service from command line
I would like to do this because I have a half installed service because of installation failure which is just there, non-functioning.
How can I delete the Windows service using the command line?
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How do I enable services on a Windows computer via a command line?
On my Sony Viao pcg-811124 laptop with Windows 7, I disabled all non-Windows services through msconfig. When I restarted my laptop, it booted up, but I cannot view the screen, even in safe mode. I ...
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How do I prevent Linux services from auto-starting?
I have recently migrated from Windows to Linux (xubuntu)
I am a developer and have installed everything I need, LAMP. In Windows I used to turn off all unnecessary services - I don't need the Apache ...
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What Windows services can I safely disable?
I'm trying to improve the boot time and general performance of a Windows XP machine and figure the massive collection of services that Windows automatically starts have to have an impact. Are there ...
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Wildcard Services restart
Currently, we have setup a .bat file which lists all services to start / stop them eg.
SC start SERVICE1
SC start SERVICE2
SC stop SERVICE1
SC stop SERVICE2
We add new services all the time and the ...
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