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Windows Central
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Mauro Huculak

How to manage system services on Windows 11

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On Windows 11, services are usually referred to as essential programs running in the background to allow the system and apps to operate as intended with corresponding features (such as printing, networking, authentication, and many more).

Although the operating system manages services automatically, sometimes, you may have to manually control one or more services to troubleshoot problems with an app or Windows features or when a program requires managing services manually.

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