Questions tagged [windows-services]
In Windows operating systems, a Windows service is a computer program that operates in the background. It is similar in concept to a Unix daemon.
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How Can I Restart Service once reaching CPU consumption greater than 10%?
I face windows service interruption without clear error added into log file. This error cause CPU consumption to reach around 25%, which causes service to be running without any action. I need to ...
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cmd // stop service ONLY if it's running, otherwise declare a variable
I'd like to make a short script which:
Checks if specified services are running.
If they do then they should be stopped (otherwise declare variable/s for the last point).
Then there will be some code ...
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What process deleted the glpi-agent service?
My glpi-agent service was deleted upon my Windows 10 reboot.
I would like to find out what deleted it :
C:\> sc.exe query glpi-agent
[SC] OpenService FAILED 1060:
The specified service does not ...
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How to interact with FIDO authenticaor (*user presence check*) from Windows Service?
I have a setup with several on-demand SSH tunnels that I like to manage via Windows Services. I normally use Cygwin with its own OpenSSH (OpenSSH_9.5p1, OpenSSL 3.0.12 24 Oct 2023), but have also ...
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How to NULL output of Taskkill command
Sometimes Windows Update Service aka wuauservstarts on its own an and starts downloading updates even though I have already disabled it. So I created this command in task scheduler.
program: taskkill....
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When can/should a Windows service Start type be "Boot" or "System" instead of "Automatic"?
While running the Services.msc GUI offers the ability to manually set a Windows service start type to Automatic, Automatic (Delayed start), Manual, or Disabled, the configuration of services is stored ...
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How to start of reinstall Windows DNS Client?
My Windows 11 machine is unable to start the DNS Client service. This means that all internet requests are extremely slow since no DNS calls are cached.
Here you can see the service stuck in a ...
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Service user gets access denied for share, while NTFS and share permissions are given
Please help - can't seem to wrap my head around this:
All Windows environment. Application needs to write data in a network share. The application in question is located on srv01, thus the service was ...
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Windows DNS Client service will not start
I previously had a lot of domains blocked using my HOSTS file, but after a reboot it took several minutes for DNS to begin resolving to anything. So I disabled DNS caching as I saw recommended online.
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How to get all information concerning a Windows service?
On one computer, a Windows service is created.
I have tried to create the same one on another computer, but this seems not to work.
In order to solve my issue, I'm planning to ask for all Windows ...
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How to investigate continuous cpu usage by a process on Windows
My process on a users machine consumes 5-20% cpu continuously even when machine is idle. I cannot repro this issue on my end. So I am bit lost on how can I investigate this issue. Please note that 5-...
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What do the service values "CHECKPOINT" and "WAIT_HINT" mean?
I'm trying to troubleshoot some issues with a service, including a service not starting up properly. So I typed the command sc queryex <servicename> (documentation here). Most of the results are ...
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Which Windows apps use the "DNS client" service?
I'm thinking of Windows 10/11.
Which Windows 10 apps use the "DNS client" service?
I guess Windows apps like browsers, mail clients, etc have their own DNS clients (also called "stub ...
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What to do instead if stopping Windows service doesn't stop the process?
I'm trying to stop a Windows service with an underlying java process with command net stop. Sometimes the underlying process doesn't stop. I can only stop it by doing a taskkill /f /pid.
What can I do ...
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Does changing Windows logon password automatically change service logon?
Let's say I change the password to my Windows local account on a Windows 10 Pro machine. If that local account is used to start a Windows service, does the password need to be manually updated on the ...
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