Re: [Openvpn-users] Windows openvpnservice (openvpnserv2) starting of its own accord ?

[Selva N. <sel...@gm...>]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 4:50 PM, debbie10t <deb...@gm...> wrote:

>
>> Use msconfig to disable startup processes and/or services to isolate the
>> what causes this. You will have to reboot several times using a bisecting
>> approach -- disable half of the start up items, then quarter etc and the
>> same for services... Powershell gurus may be able to automate this...
>>
>
> 1st step i elected was to set openvpn Ineractive service to manual
> along with *all* openvpn services set to manual.  Then stop all those
> services and reboot.
>
> Result upon reboot openvpnserv2 *is* started while other openvpn services
> are not. The openvpn log shows that it is started not continued.
>

Any service set to depend on openvpnservice?

sc enumdepend openvpnservice


>
> I expect this will turn out to have nothing to do with openvpn but ..
>
> I will try the bisect approach, thanks


Bisect is going to be painful and wont catch complex dependencies like if a
and b are started then start the service. But I've no better suggestions.

Selva