WinServices

WinServices is an advanced software utility designed to help you easily control Windows services and create snapshots with different configurations for comparison purposes. For instance, you can find out which services have been changed, added or removed by the OS.

Wrapped up in a seemingly outdated interface made from a large window, WinServices is easy to navigate. It automatically loads all Windows services when launched, so you can check out their name and description, along with status (stopped or running).

By opening the right-click menu of any selected service, you can start, stop, pause or restart it with one click, as well as examine and edit properties.

These parameters focus on the service's display name, start type (e.g. autostart, boot start, disabled), error control mode (e.g. show or ignore error and continue), service type (e.g. interactive process, device driver), dependencies, and other actions (e.g. always keep running or stopped). Error control logs are registered and inspected.

All shown service information can be saved to Services status files (.rpt format) and later opened to inspect two different configurations, as well as to even restore them. Worth noting is that WinServices lets you open status files from the local host or a remote one, so you can compare the service configuration between your local computer and another one in LAN, for example.

It provides you with a basic search function for the services, various viewing modes (e.g. services list or type, load order, dependencies), and multiple UI languages.

You can also handpick the columns to display while excluding the rest (e.g. error control, start name), choose the comparison mode between basic, advanced and full (the differences are listed), create a systray icon for quick access, or make the tool automatically run at every Windows startup until further notice.

No error messages popped up in our testing, and the application didn't freeze or crash. It didn't hamper system performance, thanks to the fact that it used low CPU and RAM.

WinServices features advanced and approachable options to help you manipulate and examine Windows services, and it's free to use. Too bad it hasn't been updated for a while.