BetterWindowsServices

Features

• Ask, instead of scroll - start:auto !status:running is what should be up and is not. One language, in the search box and in bws list --query, with the fields offered as you type.
• Show the plan before anything happens - every stop, start, restart and start type change is previewed with the services it takes down with it, and the preview is what runs.
• Tell you what drifted - bws snapshot create freezes the machine into a file, and bws snapshot diff says what changed since, configuration apart from what merely started or stopped.
• Stop a service that will not stop - it asks politely first and ends the process only if that fails, naming every other service that lives in it.
• Show what services.msc hides - who signed the binary and whether Windows trusts it, triggers, privileges, the security descriptor, the process and its memory. As columns, and as things to search on.
• Fit into scripts - --json on every command, an exit code for every ending, and 5 when a diff finds drift.
• Mass actions, want to stop/start/restart/anything else for 5/10/15 services?
• Run from one file, offline - no installer, no .NET to install, and it never talks to the internet. Reading needs no administrator rights. GPL-3.0.

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