get-service

I'm trying to find a property of a service -- Start-Up Type (Automatic,
Manual, Disabled) -- but cannot seem to locate it. I have tried a number of
values found in get-service | get-member, all without success.

Does anyone know which property contains or method returns this value?

Thanks,
Bart Perrier

you can use WMI for this
get-wmiObject win32_service

will get the startmode also

PoSH>gwmi win32_service


ExitCode : 1077
Name : Alerter
ProcessId : 0
StartMode : Disabled
State : Stopped
Status : OK

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"Bart Perrier" <bart_perrier@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uOxsnQPBHHA.4992@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> I'm trying to find a property of a service -- Start-Up Type (Automatic,
> Manual, Disabled) -- but cannot seem to locate it. I have tried a number
> of values found in get-service | get-member, all without success.
>
> Does anyone know which property contains or method returns this value?
>
> Thanks,
> Bart Perrier
>

How about through registry?

cd hklm:\system\currentcontrolset\services

How can i recurse through the hives and get the values of each "START" subkey?
I see the member of get-childitem GETVALUE and GETVALUENAMES but I'm not
sure how to pipe this....???

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:15:06 -0600, "Bart Perrier"
<bart_perrier@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I'm trying to find a property of a service -- Start-Up Type (Automatic,
>Manual, Disabled) -- but cannot seem to locate it. I have tried a number of
>values found in get-service | get-member, all without success.
>
>Does anyone know which property contains or method returns this value?
>
>Thanks,
>Bart Perrier

As as far as I'm aware it's not exposed using the get-service cmdlet.

I assume that you want to know / set the startup setting fora small
number of services. I say that because you can't use wildcards with
the -name parameter of set-service.

One (not very elegant) approach is to use the -StartupType parameter
of the set-service cmdlet with the -whatif parameter also set to set
the startup value for a service of interest.

If that doesn't appeal then Marc's get-wmiobject Win32_Service
approach is one way to go.

Andrew Watt MVP

function StartType ($start)
{
switch ($start) {
0 {return "Boot";Continue }
1 {return "System";Continue}
2 {return "Automatic";Continue}
3 {return "Manual";Continue}
4 {return "Disabled";Continue}
"" {return "Unknown";Continue}
}
}
gci hklm:\system\currentcontrolset\services | %{ $_.pschildname + ' : ' +
(StartType((gp $_.pspath).start)) ;$s=$_.pschildname;get-wmiobject
win32_service | select name, state | ? { $_.name -eq $s};}

How can i flip this code around so that I am matching HKLM values on the
win32_service returned names?

get-wmiobject win32_service | select name, state | %{gci
hklm:\system\currentcontrolset\services\ | %{(gp $_.pspath).start}}