When accessing services through Services Control Manager, you will notice (see Figure 4.11) that each service has the following startup types:
- Automatic: This service starts automatically when the OS starts.
- Automatic (Delayed start): This service starts approximately 2 minutes after all marked automatic services have started.
- Manual: This service must be started either by a user or dependent services.
- Disabled: This service cannot be started by the OS, user, or dependent services.

Figure 4.11: Windows Server service startup types
Now that we have looked at services and the registry, let's learn how ...