Services and Applications

The Services snap-in has been moved to the Services and Applications container in Computer Manager, but is essentially unchanged from the earlier version of Windows. All the services are listed, along with their status, startup type, and logon credentials.

From the Services snap-in, administrators can control services on the server, including the following:

• Start or stop the services

• Change the startup type to set the service to start automatically, be started manually, or even prevent the service from starting at all

• Change the account the service runs under

• Set up recovery actions if the service stops, such as restarting the service or even restarting the server

• View the configuration details of the service, ...

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