{"id":54,"date":"2005-12-15T16:46:07","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2005-12-19T01:16:53","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T00:16:53","slug":"service-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2005\/12\/15\/service-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Service names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to find out the short name of a windows service? The short name is handy to stop a service from the command line. One can always use the display name between quotes, but stopping a service like &#8220;Windows Firewall (WF) \/ Internet-verbinding delen (ICS)&#8221; isn&#8217;t fun like that. \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t find a way to find the short name through the service panel (if you know, please let me know!). So here is how I did it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open regedit and go to HKLM\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services<\/li>\n<li>Do a search on the friendly name<\/li>\n<li>The name of the parent key is the service&#8217;s short name!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: <i>An anonymous poster pointed out my post is actually useless =) See the comments for information on how &#8216;normal&#8217; people look it up.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to find out the short name of a windows service? The short name is handy to stop a service from the command line. One can always use the display name between quotes, but stopping a service like &#8220;Windows Firewall (WF) \/ Internet-verbinding delen (ICS)&#8221; isn&#8217;t fun like that. \ud83d\ude09 I didn&#8217;t find a way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2005\/12\/15\/service-names\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Service names<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tweaking","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}