August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
21h 5m
English
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Service Control Manager (SCM)
As I alluded to previously, the Service Control Manager controls all services on the local machine. More concretely, the SCM has these five main jobs:
Maintains a database of installed services.
Processes requests for installation and removal of services.
Start services specified as "automatic startup" at boot.
Maintains a database of all running services and their status.
Accepts and forwards messages from users and other processes to the appropriate service. This includes things such as start and stop requests.
The services database appears in a part of the Registry familiar to all NT administrators: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services. Beneath this key are subkeys for each and every installed service, as shown ...