How do you analyse services

[The Old Timer]

There are several freeware utilities that I have seen that can analyze
what programs you have running at startup & make recommendations as to
what to do with them. Is there any similar program available that will
do pretty much the same thing but which analyzes services instead?

Thanks in advance

 

[Jerry]

ServiWin www.nirsoft.net could be what you want

 

[Wesley Vogel]

No. You have to figure services out yourself. Every machine is different.
Every user is different. You have to experiment after you learn some
things. Obviously you will have learned a lot more after experimenting.
Like why can't I get online after I disabled the DHCP Client service. Or
why doesn't defrag work or why do I get Can't Collect Information in System
Information (msinfo32) after disabling the DCOM Server Process Launcher
service.

Here's some links to information on Services.

The following Blackviper sites are down quite often.

http://www.blackviper.com/

http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm

http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

The following Blackviper sites usually work.

http://web.archive.org/web/20041128094512/http://www.blackviper.com/

http://web.archive.org/web/20041128084144/www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm#Services

http://smallvoid.com/tweak/winnt/services.html

http://www.geocities.com/ziyadhosein/xpserv1.htm

http://www.beemerworld.com/tips/servicesxp.htm

[[This guide lists the default service configurations for Windows XP Service
Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 2. Services that have been added,
removed, or had the default settings changed are highlighted in bold text.]]
TweakHound - Windows XP Services Default Settings Guide
http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/defserv.htm

[[Services
Microsoft pulled their services guide that I had linked to previously
because the information was outdated due to SP2. Even the default settings
for Services listed in Help & Support are still wrong. I've gotten these
settings by doing a fresh install of both XP Home and Pro and exporting the
Services configuration as a .csv file.]]
TweakHound's Super XP Tweaking Guide - Services
http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks6.htm

Default settings for services
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../proddocs/en-us/sys_srv_default_settings.mspx

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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