System Manager - Services and Applications

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System Manager - Services and Applications view:

Services are programs that are installed to run in the background with out intervention or interaction by the user. From the right  window if you right click on the service you can control the service. You can stop, start, restart, disable, or set the way the service will start.

This is the Extended view, if you use this view [the default view] in the right window where you see the 'Select an item to view...' when you select the service a description will display what the service does.

This is the Standard view, it takes up less space, for those with limited viewing area this is a better choice. You select this view by the tab at the bottom of the manager. You can sort the view by clicking on one of the column headers, such as Name, Description, Status, and so on. One thing that you should do for security is to change the Log On, as you can see by the graphic I need to change the ASP.NET to Local Service from Network Service. Some hackers have figured out how to spoof the Network Service account. Always something........

Properties of a service view. From this view you can change the Startup type, stop, start or disable the service. It also

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gives a description of the service and the actual path to the executable, this information is handy if you are having a problem with the service and need to find the actual file or path for regedit. You can also find out what other services depend on this service or what services it depends on to start. You can set the Recovery rate also. If the service is having problems and is shutting down unexpectedly you can set the recovery to restart the service. For some services that require an account to start you can set the account and password in the Log On tab.

WMI Control, Window Management Instrumentation. This is a Microsoft Operating System application.

Indexing Service is a service that indexes your computer including but not limited to your hard drive and all the files, along with your local web site if installed.

Internet Information Services, if you have the local Web Server installed this is where you would create local web sites, set up the properties of your local web site, stop, start, and restart.

And one last thing, as with most [using this term loosely] Microsoft products putting the mouse pointer in some white space, and pressing F1 will bring up help.

You will find a lot more information in the Self Computer Repair E-Book.

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