Windows: Find Out What Services are Running
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:








WebMax said on June 2, 2009
Or you could right click the taskbar and go to Task Manager to see what processes are running.
dreamputer said on February 3, 2012
“net start” will list all the services that are started, with Display Name info.
“sc query” will list them with more detailed info.
You can also append ” | findstr …” to narrow down the search.