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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Zombie services: How do I remove services that turn up in event viewer but not under services
I've had the same install of Windows XP since 2007, and its built up quite a bit of cruft over time. Its mostly not a problem, other than very slow post boot initialisation, and a whole load of errors ...
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“svhost(netsvc)” is using about 40-80% CPU when the system starts
My CPU usage is constantly at 40% (maximum 95%) most of the time when I start my PC. It continues to work at this rate for about 15-25 minutes.
I checked the performance monitor and found out that ...
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Starting a service after checking some condition in windows 7
I am using a p2p program that runs as a service. But that program has a bug that it will not be able to work properly if the computer is not connected to internet, at the time the service is starting.
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VPN issue: SSTP Service service started and then stopped
When I was trying to set up a VPN connect on my laptop running Windows 7 Ultimate, I got this error:
Network Connections
Cannot load the Remote Access Connection Manager service.
Error ...
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Indexing Service filter daemon keeps crashing on Windows XP; something worse underneath?
The Indexing Service filter daemon keeps crashing on my Windows XP Pro machine, with the following error message:
Indexing Service filter daemon has encountered a problem and needs to close.
We are ...
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What could make a win32 service stop?
A service (Python 2.7) on XP which is supposed to never stop, stops for an unkwown reason at midnight every day, so I have to restart it every morning.
The service worked well for a year, but ...
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How to prevent Service Control Manager hanging at start of Windows 7?
I had a third NAS added to my home system this summer. At that time, I started to develop and issue wherein the start of my Win 7SP1 becomes a two-step process. MOST stuff seems to load immediately ...
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no UAC prompt when opening the Services applet
My Windows 7 Ultimate no longer 'UAC prompts' me when I open the services applet (administrative tools). I can manipulate services without ever confirming the elevation.
Yes, UAC is still enabled. ...
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Controlling Upstart job as unprivileged user
What's the best way to allow an unprivileged user to control an upstart job?
By controlling an upstart job I mean starting/stopping/reloading/restarting it:
start myservice
I can imagine one way ...
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Run Dropbox as a service on Fedora 15
I installed the dropbox using the text based install method described here. However I'd now like dropbox to start automatically when the machine starts up, and start syncing the files. I'll need ...
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Force a Windows service to restart
I'm having problems trying to restart a Windows service (VBoxDrv, a VirtualBox driver)
net stop VBoxDrv
doesn't work (service starting or stopping error)
sc queryex vboxdrv
displays ...
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Why is “run this program as an administrator” disabled?
I need to stop some services so I made a cmd file but it doesn't work because it needs to run as admin.
When I right click on the file and choose Properties, I see that "run this program as an ...
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What do service(s)/process(es) do I need to ensure are running for Cgywin
Cgywin doesn't seem to be running on my machine (never used it before, although I have installed it!). What services or processes do I need to start so it can run.
Thanks
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Can I move the services menu to the top of the contextual menu?
Is it possible to move the services section of the contextual menu from the bottom to the top?
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Disable Norton 360 in Windows XP
Since Norton is taking up 98% CPU time, I need it disabled for a customer. I don't want to uninstall it since they have a 2 year subscription (Don't worry, I'll smack them later), but I want to ...
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How to start/stop service on a remote computer with an out of sync clock
I'm working in a MS Windows Domain.
I'm trying to centrally (remotely) start and stop the W32Time service for a certain amount of time (to disable Time Server update e.g for two hours) then remotely ...
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Assign a shortcut for creating and opening a dated text file on OS X
I used to use tomboy wiki and they allowed you to bind opening a new note to a keyboard combination.
I use emacs on Lion and I want replicate this behaviour. I want to visit a new/existing file in ...
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Should I use my firewalls port forwarding feature or have my services listen on alternative ports?
I have an VPS with which I run my own email server sitting out in the ether of the internet which I have SSH access to. My my logging shows I'm getting 500 or so failed attempted connections per day ...
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make VNC service last to stop?
I have a headless PC, and sometimes when I shutdown, a program will get caught up on a close dialog that refuses to terminate. Unfortunately, the VNC service has been stopped already meaning I have ...
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Permission denied on file execution on Linux Red Hat
I have installed a custom service on Linux .
The service was installed as root in /etc/init.d/.
Now, when I want to start the service, it uses a shell script located elsewhere which belongs to user ...
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GUI tool to manage services in Ubuntu
Are there any GUI tools to manage the services running on Ubuntu?
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Get error messages from server
I want to start a service via xinetd but it does not work.
That means immediately after starting the service it is stopped again:
Sep 23 19:16:39 sektor xinetd[556]: START: service pid=559 ...
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Can't access a virtual machine which runs as a service
I'm trying to start a virtual machine (I'm using VMware Workstation 7) as a service on my Windows 7 system, so that it starts automatically with my (physical) host.
I used instsrv and srvany.exe from ...
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How to stop an unstoppable windows 7 service?
I have recently installed a program that deploys an agent which "protects" from peripherals.
What it actually does at this point is to block any kind of media I plug to my PC.
I've done some checking ...
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Where can I find good documentation on “msconfig” and “services.msc” for Windows 7?
Running Windows 7
I'm trying to boost the startup speed of my computer and I'm going through "msconfig" and "services.msc" to disable some applications from starting up automatically when the ...
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How can I remotely install or uninstall a service on Windows Server 2008 R2?
Who knows a simple solution how to install or uninstall a Windows service remotely on a Win2k8R2 server?
This server is a hosted at the internet, so it's not in a domain or such. Thus I want to ...
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xperf profile services
When I profile using xperf there are always cases when I see, that, say svhost(1552) "eating resources". I could then go to ProcessExplorer and see that svhost(1552) running like 10 services.
How to ...
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Windows Enterprise Edition: Is it possible to undelete a service that has been marked for deletion?
Somehow, a windows service installed on a remote machine that we rely on has been marked for deletion. We don't know how or why it has been marked for deletion. Is there a way to unmark it for ...
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Enable MySQL at system startup
I'm running a ubuntu 10.04 box.
I want to enable Mysql on startup.
Typically, I used the following command:
#update-rc.d mysql defaults
Mysql still doesn't start when system boots.
Suggestions?
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Administator panel on Mirth will not load, but the service is running
I have a Mirth system (Admininistrator 1.7.1.4322) installed on a Windows Server
(2008 enterprise). The system worked well for a year, but now suddenly the
administrator panel has stopped popping up. ...
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Host USB device connections disabled
I have a problem regarding VMware.
Host USB device connections disabled
The connection to the VMware USB Arbitration Service was
unsuccessful. Please check the status of this service in the ...
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Pandora-like service for private networks
Short Question
Does a free or reasonably priced solution exist to setup an audio streaming service like Pandora or better yet an iTunes shared library that operates over a LAN rather than the ...
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What Windows log should I use to monitor service uptime?
I need to write a script that takes data about reliability of Windows services (default and custom) and forwards them to a central server for processing. My problem is that I am not sure what log ...
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Starting a service which may have port conflicts with existing service
Is there any way to start a service and force a service that is already running to stop if it uses the port that the service I want to start is going to be using?
I'm going to be installing apache ...
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SMTP forwarding services?
I have my own server on the internet, which runs a SMTP server to forward emails for multiple domains to other email accounts (gmail, yahoo,...). But my server is not very reliable since I do ...
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NET START <SERVICE> - how/where to get the service name?
I need to create a common script to restart service:
net stop <service>
net start <service>
Problem is that I don't know the name of the service.
For example for "printer spooler" is ...
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service fails to start after restart
This issue happens on XP SP3 and on Win7 SP1. The service is configured to run using a service account to logon as a service. When I manually enter the password it is accepted and is given logon as ...
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Are startup items, services, and scheduled tasks the only things that run without my explicit involvement?
On a virgin out-of-the-box Windows machine, and before making any Internet connection, if I wish to remove or disable any applications that might run without my explicit consent, is it sufficient to ...
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Windows XP services are offline and not starting
I recently installed a version of nLite on a computer, and after booting I noticed that a few things went wrong.
The theme was Windows 2000
None of the applications I had told nLite to install had ...
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issues adding print drivers (Xerox 3250, 4510, 8560) to a terminal server so I can print from it
After remoting into another company's site (using Open VPN) and connecting to a machine their end to access their Accounts databases, I realised my printers hadn't been carried over by Terminal ...
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How do you apply umask settings to an account that doesn't log in?
On my Ubuntu 11.04x64 server, I have service accounts running which do not log in and do not have home directories. These service accounts are responsible for running processes which are invoked as ...
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How can I modify the services.msc file in Windows 7
I want to modify the default view when using Services from Administrative Tools under Windows 7, similar to this previous SuperUser question relating to Windows XP:
How can I open WinXP's Services ...
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Windows Security Center service can't be started
I'm using Win 7 64.
I tried to activate it from "services" but it doesn't work. Also, I scanned my pc with ESET Smart 4 & Super Anti-spyware but nothing was found.
Does anyone know a way to get ...
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Services running multiple times?
I've installed a postgres db on my debian squeeze. There's a /etc/init.d/postresql to control the database. When I type pstree -c, I get two traces with postgresql. After /etc/init.d/postgresl stop I ...
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How do I enable ActiveX controls in Windows XP or Windows 7?
My friend has a desktop with Windows XP installed, and he does not have a UPS set up. Yesterday, the power went out and the PC underwent a hard shutdown. This caused a problem, (ntldr disappeared), ...
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How can I query the logon as user of a Windows service using the command line?
Currently sc query shows service name, display name and other attributes of the services installed on my box. However it does not tell me what the "log on as" setting is. How can I get this ...
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How to run a Service using cmd script in Windows XP?
How can I run a service which has status "stopped" using a cmd script?
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How to click OK on a dialog on another desktop?
For months i have had a Windows Update stall. For months i've seen Windows Installer stuck trying to do something:
Every time i reboot it leaves an orphaned folder in the root of my C: drive:
i ...
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Can Windows standard user change service startup type?
I would like to know if Windows standard user can normally change service startup type and how to prevent it. A customer reports that on Windows 7 (64-bit) he was able to change startup type from ...
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How do I remove services for applications that I have uninstalled? They persist no matter what I've tried
Since Snow Leopard and now Lion, services can be controlled via System preferences > Keyboard. I have plenty of apps which have installed services and when I uninstall them, with cleanapp, they still ...
