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Detect and Find Windows Services Running in the Background

Windows make use of lots of services to run properly, thus figuring out which process belong to Windows and which not, is a bit difficult task.
For every function in Windows there is a service linked to it which you can see for yourself by typing services.msc in the Run box. This will open the Services [...]

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[Solved] The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed

The problem was reported by one of our readers who was troubled by this Windows Installer service error. The following error occurred whenever we try to install a program and especially with .msi extension.

According to Microsoft, the error occurs if:
•    You are using Windows XP in Normal mode.
•    The Windows Installer Service that is included [...]

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Steps to Re-enable Windows Audio Service

My friend called me yesterday as he was facing the problem of Audio not working on his computer. On being asked he told that by mistake he disabled all the services of the computer (Quite stupid, I know). But he was having a hard time to solve that problem as the services were not starting [...]

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Steps to Fix Access Denied to gpedit.msc Problem

My PC was working all fine until I figured out that Group Policy gpedit.msc was not opening on my system. I wanted to open the Group Policy editor for some work and I was shocked to find that not only the gpedit.msc, even the other commands with msc extensions, were not working like services.msc, devmgmt.msc, [...]

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