What is a Windows service?

A Windows service is an essential part of the operating system, enabling the creation and management of long running processes. Windows services can start without user interaction, which is an essential difference; as opposed to a user manually running a piece of software. There are a number of services that will run in the background upon a system boot.

Viewing Running Services

To view a running service on a Windows host using PowerShell, we can use the cmdlet of "Get-Service". We can then make use of the pipe "|" to push the results to a filter outputting the running services only. See below for command and output:

· Get-Service | Where {$_.status –eq 'running'}

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