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Change Service Start Mode using PowerShell

  PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com:   You can use WMI like this if you want to change a service start mode: ([wmi]’Win32_Service.Name=”Spooler”‘).ChangeStartMode(‘Automatic’).ReturnValue ([wmi]’Win32_Service.Name=”Spooler”‘).ChangeStartMode(‘Manual’).ReturnValue   Note that a return value of 0 indicates success. You will need Administrator privileges to change the start mode. Thanks to www.powershell.com

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How to find “Stopped” windows Services, whose start up mode is set to “Automatic” using PowerShell.

Hi, I called these services as “Problematic services”. The start-up mode of these services are “Automatically” so that whenever windows starts or reboot these services should start automatically. So logically if any of windows services start mode is set to “Automatic” then the Window Service should be running not “stopped”we are using WMI query language… Continue reading How to find “Stopped” windows Services, whose start up mode is set to “Automatic” using PowerShell.