3 ways to open Windows Services on Windows 10, 8, 7

The instructions below give you quick access using Run, CMD or Task Manager.

How to open Windows Services

1. Open with Start Menu

Type exactly services.msc , the result will appear. When clicking on it, we will be taken to Windows Services .

2. Open with Run command box

First, press the Windows + R key combination, then type services.msc and OK to confirm.

3. Open with Task Manager

Step 1: Right click on the Taskbar and select Task manager .

Step 2: Immediately after that, we switch to the Services tab , below there will be the words Open Services (Windows 7 version only has the words Services instead of Open Services).

4. Open Windows Services using Command Prompt

Command Prompt (CMD) is also very versatile when you can open almost any application with this integrated tool. To open CMD Command Prompt, you just need to apply the first method we mentioned above but instead of the keyword cmd , after opening CMD, Command Prompt, you continue to type the command services.msc to open

And the result:

Basic guide to using Windows Services.

The mechanism of Windows Services is quite simple when all the processes running in the background are displayed here. You can do a lot of things with these processes.

- Start: Start a process or software.

- Stop: Stop running any process or software.

- Pause: Pause running but not turn off completely.

- Resume: The opposite command to Pause when you pause.

- Restart: Restarts the process, software and is mostly applied when the process has problems.

In addition, we can go to the Properties section of each process and software to make more adjustments.

For each process, the software has 4 running modes:

- Automactic (Delayed Start): Automatically start processes and software after a period of time after the computer has started.

- Automatic: Automatically start processes and software as soon as the computer starts.

- Manual: When activating this mode, you will have to actively turn on the running process.

- Disabled: Remove running mode for process, software.

Using Windows Services via Command Prompt

In addition to using it directly, we can control the operation of these processes through the Command Prompt tool.

Step 1: First open the Start Menu and access Command Prompt with the keyword CMD but it must be in Administrator mode.

Step 2: Here are 4 modes you can do with Windows Services:

- net start : Allows to start software, processes in Windows Services.

- net stop : Allows stopping processes and software in Windows Services.

And there are 2 more commands:

- net pause : Temporarily pauses running processes and software in Windows Services, but not all processes can be applied.

- net continue : Continue running the process or software in Windows, but not all processes can be applied.

Above is how to open Windows Services as well as a little introduction about our Windows Services, through which you will have more ways to open Windows Services on Windows 10, 8 and Windows 7. If you study Windows Services in depth, you will see that using Windows Services to control processes in Windows is really easy, such as how to turn on and off Cortana Speech Services on Windows 10, one of the most "disabled" background software when reinstalling Windows 10 and if you do not know about this feature, you can refer to how to turn off Cortana Speech Services on Windows 10 and try to see what Windows Services can do.

Kareem Winters

Update 14 March 2025