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System services for IT Pros

This topic provides you with information about the common administration and troubleshooting tasks and tools associated with managing system services and their default states. It also provides links to content that will help you manage your computer's services.

Common tasks

Useful tools

Management Console

Downloads

Deployment

Operations

Technical reference

Common tasks

These links will take you to additional information on the Microsoft Web site.

Change the current state of a service

Change the default state of a service

Useful tools

This section describes the Microsoft Web site downloads and tools associated with this version of Windows that help you manage system services.

Management Console

To view or change the current state of system services, open the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in for Services. Open a command window, and then type mmc.exe. When MMC opens, click File, click Add/Remove Snap-in, and select Services from the list of available snap-ins.

Important: It may be necessary to run MMC and the associated snap-ins with elevated privileges even if your account is in the Computer Administrators group.

To open the MMC snap-in for Services with elevated privileges, click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt and then point to Run as administrator. In the command prompt that opens, type services.msc.

Downloads

No system services-related downloads were available when this documentation was last updated.

Deployment

System services are included in the operating system. No deployment is required.

Operations

Currently, system services operate the same way in this version of Windows as they did in previous versions of Windows.

For operational information about system services, go to the following resources on the Microsoft Web site:

Windows Server 2003 Services Snap-in Help

Technical reference

For more information about system services, go to the following technical references on the Microsoft Web site:

Windows Server 2003 Services Snap-in Help



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