Service Control Manager
The service control manager (SCM) is started at system boot. It is a remote procedure call (RPC) server, so that service configuration and service control programs can manipulate services on remote machines.
The service functions provide an interface for the following tasks performed by the SCM:
- Maintaining the database of installed services.
- Starting services and driver services either upon system startup or upon demand.
- Enumerating installed services and driver services.
- Maintaining status information for running services and driver services.
- Transmitting control requests to running services.
- Locking and unlocking the service database.
The following sections describe the SCM in more detail:
- Database of Installed Services
- Automatically Starting Services
- Starting Services on Demand
- Service Record List
- SCM Handles
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Carol Buchmiller - MSFT
No such service!
If I look in the list of services installed on my Server 2003 box I see no service called "Service Control Manager", nor anything that resembles it. wtf?
[Carol Buchmiller - MSFT: The Service Control Manager is not a service, it is the component of Windows that manages services.
Please post questions like this to the MSDN forums. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories. You are likely to get an answer much faster than through Community Content.]
[Carol Buchmiller - MSFT: The Service Control Manager is not a service, it is the component of Windows that manages services.
Please post questions like this to the MSDN forums. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories. You are likely to get an answer much faster than through Community Content.]