Re: Which service starts when?

From: Wolf Kirchmeir (wolfekir_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 09/14/05

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    Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:53:09 -0400

    Steven L Umbach wrote:
    > Services start before a user logs on. Examples would be personal firewalls
    > and usually anti virus programs in addition to normal operating system
    > services. After the user logs on there may be further applications started
    > and usually are. You can use Task Manager to look at processes and look for
    > processes that are running under the logged on user name. A service can also
    > use a users credentials but by default none are. You can use services.msc to
    > see the services on the computer and view the logon column to see what
    > account the service uses which normally is local system or network service
    > on Windows XP Pro for instance. SysInternals has a free tool available
    > called Autoruns that may be of interest to look at startup applications.
    > You may also find the built in msinfo32 [enter into run box and select OK
    > to start] helpful when you look at software environment categories. ---
    > Steve
    >
    > http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/autoruns.html
    >
    [...]

    Also a service may start when a program requests it. In W2K, you find
    all the available services in Control Panel --> Administrative Tools -->
    Component Services. This snap-in lists all the services provided by the
    OS, and tells you whether they are running, how they start, etc. You can
    use this snap-in to disable a service. Eg, unless you really, really
    need it, disable indexing - it tends to slow things down. NB that some
    of the things some programs do are also "services," but aren't always
    called that because they aren't provided by the operating system.

    HTH

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