System Services

Allows an administrator to define the startup mode (manual, automatic, or disabled) as well as the access permissions (Start, Stop, or Pause) for all system services.

Notes

If you choose to set system service startup to Automatic, perform adequate testing to verify that the services can start without user intervention.
For performance optimization, set unnecessary or unused services to Manual.

Policy path: 

Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\System Services

Comments: 

Note: This setting does not appear in the Local Computer Policy object.

Default: 

Undefined.

Supported on: 

Only Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003

Registry settings: 

System Services policy settings are not registry keys.

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