{"id":249,"date":"2015-06-20T01:59:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T14:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&p=249"},"modified":"2022-11-14T20:05:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T09:05:42","slug":"how-to-list-running-services-in-windows-using-the-command-line","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-list-running-services-in-windows-using-the-command-line\/","title":{"rendered":"How to List Running Services in Windows Using the Command Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this article we will look at how you can display the currently running servers on a Windows computer or Server. \u00a0Further on we will show you how you can use the net start command to output the results to a text file.<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the Windows command prompt, you can use the following command to list the running (started) services using the Windows Command Line:<\/p>\n

net start<\/code><\/p>\n

The command prompt will then list any services which are currently running on the computer. \u00a0It will look something like this:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"netstart<\/a><\/p>\n

These Windows services are started:<\/p>\n

Adobe Acrobat Update Service
\nAdvanced Monitoring Agent
\nApplication Host Helper Service
\nApplication Information
\nBackground Intelligent Transfer Service
\nBackground Tasks Infrastructure Service
\nBase Filtering Engine
\nCertificate Propagation
\nCNG Key Isolation
\nCOM+ Event System
\nCOM+ System Application
\nCryptographic Services
\nDCOM Server Process Launcher
\nDHCP Client
\nDiagnostic Policy Service
\nDiagnostics Tracking Service
\nDistributed Link Tracking Client
\nDistributed Transaction Coordinator
\nDNS Client
\nGFI LanGuard 11 Attendant Service
\nGroup Policy Client
\nIKE and AuthIP IPsec Keying Modules
\nIP Helper
\nIPsec Policy Agent
\nLocal Session Manager
\nManaged Antivirus
\nMultimedia Class Scheduler
\nNetlogon
\nNetwork Connection Broker
\nNetwork List Service
\nNetwork Location Awareness
\nNetwork Store Interface Service
\nPlug and Play
\nPower
\nPrint Spooler
\nRemote Desktop Configuration
\nRemote Desktop Connection Broker
\nRemote Desktop Licensing
\nRemote Desktop Management
\nRemote Desktop Services
\nRemote Desktop Services UserMode Port Redirector
\nRemote Procedure Call (RPC)
\nRemoteApp and Desktop Connection Management
\nRPC Endpoint Mapper
\nSecurity Accounts Manager
\nServer
\nShell Hardware Detection
\nSmart Card Device Enumeration Service
\nSuperfetch
\nSystem Event Notification Service
\nSystem Events Broker
\nTask Scheduler
\nTCP\/IP NetBIOS Helper
\nThemes
\nTime Broker
\nTouch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service
\nUser Access Logging Service
\nUser Profile Service
\nVMware Tools
\nVMware USB Arbitration Service
\nVMware vCenter Converter Standalone Agent
\nVMware vCenter Converter Standalone Server
\nVMware vCenter Converter Standalone Worker
\nWindows Audio
\nWindows Audio Endpoint Builder
\nWindows Connection Manager
\nWindows Driver Foundation – User-mode Driver Framework
\nWindows Event Log
\nWindows Firewall
\nWindows Font Cache Service
\nWindows Internal Database
\nWindows Internal Database VSS Writer
\nWindows Management Instrumentation
\nWindows Process Activation Service
\nWindows Remote Management (WS-Management)
\nWindows Search
\nWindows Time
\nWinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service
\nWorkstation
\nWorld Wide Web Publishing Service<\/p>\n

The command completed successfully.<\/p>\n

The above output was taken from a Windows 2012 R2 Server.<\/p>\n

Output net start to a text file<\/h2>\n

If you want to output the results to a text file you will need to type in the following command:<\/p>\n

net start > output.txt<\/code><\/p>\n

where output.txt is the name of the text file you want the results saved to. \u00a0If you don’t put the complete path in it will output the results to the same folder from which you are running the command.<\/p>\n

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In this article we will look at how you can display the currently running servers on a Windows computer or Server. \u00a0Further on we will show you how you can use the net start command to output the results to a text file. From the Windows command prompt, you can use the following command to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[9,57],"article-tag":[219,220,125,221],"class_list":["post-249","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-windows-commands","article-category-windows-server","article-tag-list-running-services-windows","article-tag-list-running-services-windows-command-line","article-tag-net-start","article-tag-net-start-output-to-text-file"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":3,"sum_votes":11},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}