Info on service usage

Martinez Vieites, Abraham 21 Reputation points
2020-10-12T17:33:50.26+00:00

How can we find out which windows services are used/needed by an application?

If some app tries to use a service but it is disabled, does windows write any logs about it?

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  1. Dave Patrick 426.1K Reputation points MVP
    2020-10-12T17:36:46.75+00:00

    How can we find out which windows services are used/needed by an application?

    Procmon could be used for this purpose. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon

    If some app tries to use a service but it is disabled, does windows write any logs about it?

    Its up to the application developer as to what logging detail (if any) the application might have.

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  1. Jenny Feng 14,081 Reputation points
    2020-10-13T02:33:21.17+00:00

    @Martinez Vieites, Abraham
    Hi,
    If you want a much clearer view of what services are running under each process, your best bet is to pull out Process Explorer, find the service in the list, double-click it, and then go to the Services tab. This method works on any version of Windows.
    There is no specific log for these events.

    Hope above information can help you.

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