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Tools: Services Utility

Welcome to the Services Utility. This page contains most Windows services; their expected platforms, their default and desired startup types, and clicking on them gives you a very complete explanation of them. This utility contains a great amount of information for Windows services, and is able to be searched from the search box at the bottom. If you are unsure what services are or want more information on Windows services in general then please read my Windows Components guide on services. If you want to know the meaning of the columns and the color codings or if you want to know how to use the search box properly or for other explanations on how to use this page then please see the services legend / reference.

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Services Legend / Reference

Service Display Name ? (click a name for more information)	Short Name ?	Operating Systems ?	Startup Type ?
Alerter	Alerter	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Application Layer Gateway Service	ALG	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Application Management	AppMgmt	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Automatic Updates	wuauserv	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Background Intelligent Transfer Service	BITS	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Biometric Resource Manager	brmsvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Boot Information Negotiation Layer	?	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Certificate Propagation	CertPropSvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Certificate Services	CertSvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
ClipBook	ClipSrv	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Cluster Service	?	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
COM+ Event System	EventSystem	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Computer Browser	Browser	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Computer Data Synchronization Manager	Rover	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
COM+ System Application	ComSysApp	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Cryptographic Services	CryptSvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
DHCP Client	Dhcp	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
DHCP Server	?	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Digital ID Management Service	DIMS	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Directory Replicator	?	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Discovery Persistence Service	Discovery Persistence Service	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Distributed File System	Dfs	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Distributed Link Tracking Client	TrkWks	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Distributed Link Tracking Server	TrkSvr	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Distributed Transaction Coordinator	MSDTC	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
DNS Client	DNSCache	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
DNS Server	DNS	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Error Reporting Service	ERSvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Event Log	EventLog	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Fax	Fax	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
File Replication	NtFrs	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
File Server for Macintosh	MacFile	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Font Cache Service	Font Cache Service	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
FTP Publishing	MSFtpSvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Fusion Isolation Service	Fusion Isolation Service	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Group Policy Client	GPSvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Help and Support	helpsvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
HTTP SSL	HTTPFilter	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Human Interface Device Access	HidServ	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
IIS Admin Service	IISADMIN	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service	IMAPIService	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Indexing Service	CiSvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Internet Authentication Service	IAS	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) - Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)	SharedAccess	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Intersite Messaging	ISMServ	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
IPSEC Services	PolicyAgent	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
IPv6 Helper Service	6to4	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Kerberos Key Distribution Center	kdc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Layer 2 Service	L2Svc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
License Logging	LicenseService	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Location Discovery	LocSvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service	dmadmin	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Logical Disk Manager	dmserver	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Logon Hours	LogonHours	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Message Queuing	MSMQ	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Message Queuing Triggers	MSMQTriggers	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Messenger	Messenger	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
MSSearch Gatherer	swprv	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
MSSearch Indexer	msidx35	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
MS Software Shadow Copy Provider	SwPrv	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Net Logon	Netlogon	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing	mnnsrvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
.NET Runtime Optimization Service v*	clr_optimization_v*	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Network Connections	Netman	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Network DDE DSDM	NetDDEdsdm	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Network DDE	NetDDE	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Network Location Awareness (NLA)	Nla	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Network Store Interface Service	NSI	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
NT LM Security Support Provider	NtLmSsp	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
NUI Message Receiver	?	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Offline Files Service	CscService	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
PCAudit	Parental Control Auditing	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Peer Name Resolution Protocol	PNRPSvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Peer Networking Group Authentication	p2pgasvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Peer Networking Identity Manager	p2pimsvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Peer Networking	p2psvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Performance Logs and Alerts	SysmonLog	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Plug and Play	PlugPlay	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Portable Media Serial Number	WmdmPmSN	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Print Server for Macintosh	MacPrint	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Print Spooler	Spooler	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Protected Storage	ProtectedStorage	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
QoS Admission Control (RSVP)	?	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
QoS RSVP	RSVP	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Remote Access Auto Connection Manager	RasAuto	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Remote Access Connection Manager	RASMan	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager	RDSessMgr	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator	RpcLocator	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Remote Procedure Call (RPC)	RpcSs	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Remote Registry	RemoteRegistry	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Removable Storage	NtmsSvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
RIP Listener	iprip	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Routing and Remote Access	RemoteAccess	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
RsFx Service	RsFxSvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
SafeDocs Restore Service	SDRSVC	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
SAM WinFS Account Store	SamAS	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
SAP Agent	?	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Secondary Logon	seclogon	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Security Accounts Manager	SamSs	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Server	lanmanserver	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Shell Hardware Detection	ShellHWDetection	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Simple Mail Transport Protocol	SMTPSVC	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Simple TCP/IP Services	SimpTcp	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Smartcard Removal Policy	SCPolicySvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Smart Card	SCardSvr	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
SNMP Service	SNMP	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
SNMP Trap Service	SNMPTRAP	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
SSDP Discovery Service	SSDPSRV	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
System Event Notification	SENS	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
System Maintenance Service	sysmain	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
System Restore Service	srservice	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Task Scheduler	Schedule	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper	LmHosts	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
TCP/IP Printer Server	LPDSVC	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Tcp Transport Listener Service	TcpTransportListener	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Telephony	TapiSrv	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Telnet	TlntSvr	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Terminal Server Licensing	TermServLicensing	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Terminal Services Session Directory	tssdis	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Terminal Services	TermService	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Terminal Services User Mode Device Redirector	TermServDevices	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Theme and Desktop Manager	WinUx	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Themes	Themes	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Uninterruptible Power Supply	UPS	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Universal Plug and Play Device Host	upnphost	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Upload Manager	uploadmgr	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Virtual Disk Service	vds	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Volume Shadow Copy	VSS	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Volume Snapshot	?	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
WebClient	WebClient	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Windows Audio	AudioSrv	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
WindowsEventForwardingService	WindowsEventForwardingService	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Windows Event Log	WINEVT	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Windows File Promotion Manager	WinFPM	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Windows Filestream Agent	FSAgent	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Windows File System	WinFS	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)	SharedAccess	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Windows Future Storage	?	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)	stisvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Windows Installer	MSIServer	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)	WINS	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Windows Management Instrumentation Driver Extensions	Wmi	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Windows Management Instrumentation	winmgmt	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Windows Service Pack Installer update service	spupdsvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Windows Time	W32Time	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
WinFS Rules	WinFSRules	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service	WinHttpAuthProxySvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
Wireless Configuration	WZCSVC	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
WMI Config	WcmSvc	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
WMI.jobs	WMIJOBS	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
WMI Performance Adapter	WmiApSrv	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A
World Wide Web Publishing Service	W3SVC	NT4/W 2K/P XP/HP V/H NT4/S 2K/S 2K3 V/S	D H W S T M A

Displaying 152 of 238 total services...

NT4 Workstation	NT4 Server
2000 Professional	2000 Server
XP Home / Professional	Server 2003
Vista Home	Vista Business
Third Party or Non-Default