Service dependency tree

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Is there somewhere a document that lists what services depend on which
other services? Also, a list of what will break if I disable a specific
service? TIA
 
Interesting but it doesn't print the whole tree out. Also, it is
geared toward XP and I'm still running 2K.
 
Start|Run|services.msc then look at the 'Dependencies' tab for the service.

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| Is there somewhere a document that lists what services depend on which
| other services? Also, a list of what will break if I disable a specific
| service? TIA
 
That shows the info for just that one service. I want to see the entire
tree so that if I disable, say RPC, what else will get affected.
 
You mentioned a specific service, that's why I answered as I did. There
isn't anything natively that's dynamic. You'll probably need to follow the
bread crumbs from one to the next to be sure someone or something hasn't
changed things. Yes disabling those ones is a good way to kill the OS.

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| That shows the info for just that one service. I want to see the entire
| tree so that if I disable, say RPC, what else will get affected.
 
Jerry won again! Thanks.
Related: Is there a way to retrieve a list of services which are running
 
Stubby said:
Jerry won again! Thanks.
Related: Is there a way to retrieve a list of services which are running
on the system "now"?
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Yes, at a command prompt type

net start
and press enter
 
Steve said:
Yes, at a command prompt type

net start
and press enter
Click to expand...
That's ok for human consumption, but I want to feed the list to a
program. Take a look at JSI's #9969 (above). This shows
a nice program that lists the services which depend on a specific
service-name. I want to loop over a list of running services and
perform that on each of them.
 
Stubby said:
That's ok for human consumption, but I want to feed the list to a
program. Take a look at JSI's #9969 (above). This shows
a nice program that lists the services which depend on a specific
service-name. I want to loop over a list of running services and
perform that on each of them.
Click to expand...

you asked if there was a way ... not a way to feed to a program

You can create a text file from the output and parse that I guess?
 
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