Service Control Manager

E702106

Service Control Manager is a core Windows operating system component responsible for starting, stopping, and managing system services and drivers.

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Surface form Occurrences
Windows service control manager 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Windows component
service management subsystem
system process
binaryName services.exe
communicatesWith device driver stack
service processes
componentOf Windows boot process
Windows service infrastructure NERFINISHED
criticalTo system stability
system startup
exposesFunctionalityVia ChangeServiceConfig function
CloseServiceHandle function NERFINISHED
ControlService function
CreateService function
EnumServicesStatus function
OpenSCManager function
OpenService function
QueryServiceStatus function
StartService function
Win32 service APIs NERFINISHED
handles SERVICE_CONTROL_CONTINUE
SERVICE_CONTROL_INTERROGATE
SERVICE_CONTROL_PAUSE
SERVICE_CONTROL_SHUTDOWN
SERVICE_CONTROL_STOP
interactsWith Windows Service Control Manager database
introducedIn Windows NT family NERFINISHED
logsEventsTo System event log
Windows Event Log NERFINISHED
monitors driver lifecycle
service lifecycle
operatingSystem Windows
surface form: Microsoft Windows
presentIn Windows 10 NERFINISHED
Windows 11 NERFINISHED
Windows 2000 NERFINISHED
Windows 7 NERFINISHED
Windows 8 NERFINISHED
Windows Vista NERFINISHED
Windows XP NERFINISHED
requiresPrivilege SC_MANAGER_ALL_ACCESS
administrative rights
responsibleFor handling service control requests
managing device drivers
pausing Windows services
resuming Windows services
service configuration changes
service dependency resolution
service failure actions
service recovery actions
starting Windows services
starting auto-start services
starting boot-time drivers
starting demand-start services
starting system-time drivers
stopping Windows services
tracking service status
runsAsProcess services.exe
runsInMode user mode
securityContext LocalSystem account
storesConfigurationIn HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
Windows registry NERFINISHED
supports delayed auto-start services
running services under specific accounts
service dependencies
service failure restart
service security descriptors
service triggers
usesInterface Windows Service Control Manager API NERFINISHED
service control dispatcher
service control handler

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Windows Process Activation Service uses Service Control Manager
this entity surface form: Windows service control manager
Windows services managedBy Service Control Manager
Windows services configuredWith Service Control Manager