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slolife
Asked: 2016-12-10 00:26:43 +0800 CST

Some services in services.msc are not listed with sc query

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Recently, my services.msc app has become very unresponsive and slow. Takes a few minutes to just open it. There are a number of issues with the services that are listed, but for one example I'll use AppFabricCachingService.

AppFabricCachingService is listed in services.msc. But if I do a

sc query AppFabricCachingService

I get

C:\WINDOWS\system32>sc query AppFabricCachingService
[SC] EnumQueryServicesStatus:OpenService FAILED 1060:
The specified service does not exist as an installed service.

The AppFabricCachingService is not listed here in the registry either.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

Any thoughts on how to get the services.msc synced with SC and what is actually on the system?

I am using Windows 10

windows service windows-10 mmc

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Turns out, I had previously connected my services.msc to another machine (rather than my local machine). When I changed the connection to the remote machine, I didn't think that it would be sticky and persist after closing and reopening the services.msc app. And enough time passed between reopening services.msc that I completely forgot about that change.

    It wasn't until that remote machine was powered down for a few days that services.msc would complain at startup that the remote machine's RPC service was not available and would quit.

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