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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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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Windows 8 services fail to start
I have Windows 8 64-bit and some HDDs randomly appear that do not exist. I went into the BIOS to check if they were there (they weren't there), and booted without modifying any settings. Windows froze ...
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Systemd Service does not start on reboot
I have the following systemd service called startupsh.service placed in /etc/systemd/system/ on my raspberry pi running rasbpian.
[Unit]
Description=Service to start telegram bot
After=graphical....
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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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Services don't have MySQL Server. How to run it?
I need to run MySQL Server on a new for me laptop. There's Windows 7. And MySQL have been installed on it. In order to verify this, I opened the Programs and Features window and saw it there:
But ...
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When System PID 4 is locking a file or folder, How can I determine what program/process/service is locking it without guesswork?
(This question is not a duplicate of Find out which process is locking a file or folder in Windows I am asking specifically about when PID-4 is locking it (besides the fact that i'm saying without ...
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Strange, similar services running on my PC: are they viruses?
there are a couple of services from UnistackSvcGroup, BcastDVRUserService and others running on my Windows 10 machine with a weird name. I did some research on the web about services from these groups ...
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PostgreSQL 9.2.4 (Windows 7) - Service won't start, “could not load pg_hba.conf”
I am trying to get Postgres 9.2.4 to run as a service on Windows 7. After installing postgres, the service was running fine. However, after setting postgres up as a server for another program, the ...
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ClamAV/FreshClam Update Intervals
Ubuntu 9.10
Silly question time: When the clamav-freshclam service is running, how often is clamav checking for updates? Or do I have to manually run freshclam via a cronjob?
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Windows 7 (x64) PC requires frequent rebooting
My Windows 7 (64 bit) PC develops a problem every few days and requires rebooting to fix it.
Symptoms: I will notice that it's running very slowly, the UI can't even keep up with my typing, disk is ...
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Windows Service SearchIndexer.exe Crashes on Indexing
Relevant Specs:
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1
Outlook 2010 Version 14.0.7116.5000 (32-bit)
Original Symptom:
In outlook, I attempted to search for an email but nothing ever returned and the ...
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Systemd fails to locate executable although it exists
I am on Arch Linux and have this service named toto.service in /etc/systemd/system/ that I want to run:
[Unit]
Description=Toto
After=network-online.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/opt/toto.sh
[Install]
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How to delete the folder "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Diagnosis\ETLLogs" and stop Windows from piling up garbage on my SSD?
There are many mentions of this folder on the web, it's clear that it relates to Windows 10 telemetry, and many people want to get rid of this folder (it's 30 GB on my C: drive at the moment, and it ...
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Fail to start sppsvc service in Windows 11
I bought a new laptop with an Nvidia GeForce 4070 GPU and an I7 12700 CPU. After installing Microsoft Office products, the service sppsvc stopped working as a result the Office apps raised the error &...
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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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MySQL is not connecting with server
I am currently using MySQL 8.0.36 on Windows 10. Today, when I started my computer to work on SQL, I encountered an issue where it displayed 'No connection established.' Subsequently, I attempted to ...
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Is it possible to create a non-forking vnc service?
I followed this article to create a vnc service. The service is forking and uses a PID-file. My version of the service description — [email protected] — looks like this:
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Description=Start ...
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Why is the webserver not available in the LAN if I start the server by a service-deamon?
I have a Laravel application, if I start this application in the CLI with artisan serve --port=8081 --host=monitoring it is available in the network with monitoring:8081. I create a ServiceDaemon an ...
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What services are required for Windows Media Player to share media?
What services must be set to automatic or manual in order for the Media Sharing option in Windows Media Player to function?
I ask, because I've turned off some services, and I can't for the life of ...
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Wait for USB mount before starting NFS server on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 (zero2w) with Raspbian?
I have Raspberry Pi Zero 2 (zero2w) with Raspbian x32 installed and attached USB SSD drive which main purpose is to act as a network (image) backup server for several other devices (all Raspberry Pis -...
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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 ...
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Window's Service set to manual startup, but automatically starting
I have a very strange thing happening on a Windows 10 machine.
I have a Windows service that is set startup manually. I wrote a script that starts the service when on the desktop. Basically a net ...
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What keeps re-enabling update orchestrator service in Windows 10?
The following services have successfully been disabled, and their executable files that activate them have had their security permissions removed under propteries:
Background Intelligent Transfer ...
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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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What disables the 'Startup type' dropdown in the services.msc snap-in, for the gamingservices and gamingservicesnet services?
I've met my share of difficult Microsoft services that don't want to be fiddled with for various reasons, but I can't seem to figure out the gamingservices & gamingservicesnet services. I've added ...
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Transmission on Ubuntu: daemon is running but transmission-remote says Unauthorized User?
I installed Transmission on Ubuntu 20.04 with sudo apt install transmission-daemon.
After starting the service, when I try to get the status with transmission-remote -si I get:
Unauthorized User
I ...
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Windows Update is running, but not working
I've just installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and I'm trying to run Windows Update, but it refuses to work. When I attempt to check for updates it gives me the message "Windows cannot currently check ...
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Windows service fails to start with custom user until started once with local user
All of a sudden my Windows service application after installation does not start. (Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do.)
The service uses a custom user. If I change the ...
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Faults in Windows Updates Services and more on Windows 11
My friend's been having issues with his computer when trying to update to 23H2. Initially this started with a "Something went wrong. Try to reopen Settings later." message. After digging ...
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Powershell Get-AppxPackage not working
This is the error:
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers
Get-AppxPackage : The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices
associated with it.
The service cannot ...
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Windows 10 - Firewall - Outbound rule to allow access for one service hosted by svchost.exe
Initial question
Today, I'm stuck with a Windows Firewall problem and I hope you can help me.
I'm trying to create rules dedicated to services but I can't make them match.
I found some related topics ...
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Tomcat service on windows server 2019 starts automatically after being killed?
I have to regularly kill my tomcat service on a windows server 2019 in order to transfer new data into an MSSQL database. I have administrator privilages and have tried all methods I know to stop the ...
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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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How to run Apache airflow that is installed by PyPy as systemd?
I installed Apache airflow using PyPy and the executable is in
/home/my_user/anaconda3/envs/my_env/bin/airflow
The installation is working fine and I wanted to make it a systemd.
[Unit]
Description=...
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Samba File Server not Working on Windows 10
since yesterday my Filesharing on Windows doesn't work. And the problem might that the SmbServer is not running at all. If I check netstat there is no process running on Port 445. Do you have an idea ...
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What is the “down” service at port 2022?
According to NMAP and IANA port 2022 TCP belongs to the service down:
PORT STATE SERVICE
2022/tcp open down
But what is down? I cannot find anything about it. Is there any document explaining ...
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macOS: run user-mode services but allow other users to login
i would like to run gitlab-runner or a multi-user Mac Studio .
Reading the documentation, it seems that I have to setup auto-login for the user who is running gitlab-runner as a user-service, in order ...
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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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Windows .Bat file behave differently when executed from command window and by double clicking on the bat file
batchfile is simple which has only two lines below, but behaves differently.
run from command window.
> sc \\server query | findstr SERVICE_NAME | find /c /v "" //result is 135
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Hotkeys are not working on Asus Laptop
I'm unable to use my function keys on Asus Laptop after cleaning up the registry and turning off some excessive services. I assume I turned off some wrong service and I am unable to use Fn keys.
In ...
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How to stop a unstoppable Kernel Driver windows 10?
I am looking to stop a kernel-level service. I would like to stop the service called BadlionAnticheat (not going to cheat in online games don't worry). When I sc query BadlionAnticheat, I get the ...
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How to tell which service or task caused a certain 4624 logon event?
I found a series of Windows logon events 4624 like this:
An account was successfully logged on.
Subject:
Security ID: SYSTEM
Account Name: mycomputername$
Account Domain: ...
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Data Usage Service usage and functionality
I was going through services to disable and I stumbled upon Data Usage service.
The description says:
Data Usage
Network data usage, data limit, restrict background data, metered ...
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NSSM for Selenium Server (Paused)
My selenium grid server is working very well when im running it on cmd and then java -jar selenium-server-.jar standalone and I can also run my test side files from my monitoring. But when I close the ...
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How to run WSL on Windows 11 boot as service
Postgres server on Debian should run on Windows 11 boot.
Debian was installed using
wsl --install Debian
Postgres in Debian using
sudo apt install postgresql-12
Created /etc/wsl.conf as described in ...
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So I disabled the Application Information service
Do to a battery problem when upgrading to Windows 10 I disabled the Appinfo service. The problem I am having now is that I cannot get it re-enabled. I get this message when I try and open regedit, ...
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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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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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User services in FreeBSD?
Say for instance I want to start up the emacs server for my user when I log in. In a systemd Linux system, I might make a unit file at ~/.config/systemd/user/emacs.service and enable it with systemctl ...
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Where do you find the file lists that Microsoft collects from your system?
System ->
Update & Security ->
Windows security (on the left) ->
Virus & threat protection (on the right) ->
Manage settings (under Virus & threat protection settings on the right)
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