Comments on: Display a list of Started Services from the Command Line (Windows)

By: shoro

shoro — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:16:29 +0000

Display one page at a time as follows:

net start | more

Or you can stream your output to a file as follows:

net start > results.txt

By: Cliff Floyd

Cliff Floyd — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:48:40 +0000

When I run “net start”, the output flashes on my screen and then disappears. How do I display the results?

By: valanarasu

valanarasu — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:53:00 +0000

I am using Windows XP, my task manager and regedit has been disabled by a virus and I can not able to run install any antivirus. When I am trying to launch TASKMANAGER or REGEDIT a warning message shows it has been disabled by administrator. Give me a solution.

By: Vanguard

Vanguard — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:44:06 +0000

The ’sc’ command (Service Controller) is far superior to listing the services that are configured on your host. For example, to list all NT services but only those that are running (to equate to the ‘net start’ command), run:

sc query type= service

To see those that are defined but not running:

sc query type= service state= inactive

And to see both running and stopped services:

sc query type= service state= all

Yes, the spaces are needed after the equals sign. Run “sc /?” to get all its help. It is likely that ’sc’ is only available on some versions of Windows (this was tested under Windows XP Pro).