The Log On tab allows you to choose whether the service is logged on as the local system account or under another account. You can easily get there at any point by simply hitting WIN + R on your keyboard to open the Run dialog, and typing in services.msc. Windows has always used the Services panel as a way to manage the services that are running on your computer. So if you don’t allow an application to run as administrator, it cannot just create a service to run in the background. Unlike regular applications, which can be simply launched and run under your user account, a service must be installed and registered with Windows, which requires an administrator account, and usually a User Account Control prompt before that happens. So a service that tries to open a dialog box or show you a message won’t be allowed to do so. Services are designed to run continuously in the background and perform system tasks, like backing up your computer or running a server process that listens on a network port.īack in the Windows XP days, services could be configured to run interactively and run alongside the rest of your applications, but since Vista, all services are forced to run in a special window session that can’t interact with your local desktop. They can be configured to run as the local system account. Windows services are a special type of application that is configured to launch and run in the background, in some cases before the user has even logged in. What we’re not going to do is give you an exact list of services to disable, because for the most part, you should leave the built-in services alone. So today’s lesson is going to teach you about services, how to analyze them, remove them, or disable them.

But people still are determined to disable services.

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