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
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.
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