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cwindowsoperating-systemregistryservice

Where does windows Service status stored?

I could see from MSDN documentations that a new windows service will be stored in the registry HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services

However the services registry key does not hold a value for the "service running status" Can anyone let me know where the service running status will be stored?

Solution

  • The service running status is not stored in the registry - it's a runtime property which you can query with ControlService() service management function.