Configure services to run as Local or Network service, how?

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In Event Viewer Under Applications, there were no errors, but there was a
warning.

EVENT ID 1517
SOURCE Userenv

Windows saved user ********\******* registry while an application or service
was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's
registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no
longer in use.

This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring
the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account.
 
MS on their event help thing said to dload the User Profile Hive Cleanup
Service, which I am doing. But still would like to know how to run the
services in the local service account, which I had assumed already were
being run there.
 
Joel said:
In Event Viewer Under Applications, there were no errors, but there was a
warning.

EVENT ID 1517
SOURCE Userenv

Windows saved user ********\******* registry while an application or service
was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's
registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no
longer in use.

This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring
the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account.
Click to expand...

Run services.msc via Start / Run, then check which active services
run under your user account.
 
Almost every one of them are listed under Local System. So if I go in and
change them to
NT AUTHORITY\LocalService,
I wonder if I won't be causing myself a bunch or more problems?

There are 4 of them listed as "network service" which I'm pretty sure I
better leave alone. Right now I've got that UPH cleanup service running that
Microsoft suggested, so hopefully that will solve the problem instead.
 
Joel said:
Almost every one of them are listed under Local System. So if I go in and
change them to
NT AUTHORITY\LocalService,
I wonder if I won't be causing myself a bunch or more problems?

There are 4 of them listed as "network service" which I'm pretty sure I
better leave alone. Right now I've got that UPH cleanup service running that
Microsoft suggested, so hopefully that will solve the problem instead.
Click to expand...

The problem is not to run them under "Local System" but
running them under your own user account. I suspect you
don't have any of those.
 
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