At times you may need to open and manage your Windows Services. You may want to stop some service, start it, disable the service, delay its start-up or resume or pause the Windows Service. At such time, the Services Manager, which is a built-in tool in the Windows operating system, will help you. This post will show you how to open your Windows Services, using Services Manager as well as the Command Prompt.Windows Services are applications that typically start when the computer is booted and run quietly in the background until it is shut down. Strictly speaking, a service is any Windows application that is implemented with the services API and handles low-level tasks that require little or no user interaction.How to open Windows Services ManagerTo open the Windows Services Manager on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer, do the following:Right-click on the Start button to open the WinX MenuSelect RunType services.msc in the Run box which opensWindows Services Manager will open.Here you will be able to start, stop, disable, delay Windows Services.Let us see how to do this in a bit more detail.Right-click on your Start button to open the WinX Menu. Select Run. This opens the Run box. Now type services.msc in it and hit Enter to open the Services Manager.

Service name is an internal name used by Windows to reference the service. Display name is the name displayed in Windows Services snap-in. By default, both names are generated from the .exe or .sys file name, however, you can override it by specifying names explicitly.




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