Windows: Find Out What Services are Running

Contributed by shamanstears August 6, 2008  
Tagged: Windows

If you are trying to find out what services are needed on your system so you can disable the unnecessary ones, a good place to start is by checking the current list of running processes on your computer. By using the command line, you can quickly generate a list of all running processes and the service(s) associated with each process.

1. Open a command prompt.

2. Execute the following command:
tasklist /svc

Your results will look something like this: