{"id":4154,"date":"2013-02-16T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/02\/16\/powertip-find-the-start-mode-and-startup-account-for-services\/"},"modified":"2013-02-16T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-the-start-mode-and-startup-account-for-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-the-start-mode-and-startup-account-for-services\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find the Start Mode and Startup Account for Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell to find the start mode and startup account used by services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find the startup account and the start mode of services on my system?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;You need to use WMI and query the Win32_Service class.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">With Windows PowerShell 3.0, use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-CimInstance<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet, as shown here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">PS C:\\&gt; Get-CimInstance -ClassName win32_service -Property startmode, startname, name&nbsp;|<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">&nbsp; select startname, startmode, name<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">With Windows PowerShell 1.0 and 2.0, use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-WmiObject<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet to query the Win32_Service WMI class, as shown here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">PS C:\\&gt; Get-WmiObject -Class win32_service -Property startmode, startname | select st<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">artname, startmode, name<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell to find the start mode and startup account used by services. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find the startup account and the start mode of services on my system? &nbsp;You need to use WMI and query the Win32_Service class. With Windows PowerShell 3.0, use the&nbsp;Get-CimInstance&nbsp;cmdlet, as shown here. PS C:\\&gt; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell to find the start mode and startup account used by services. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find the startup account and the start mode of services on my system? &nbsp;You need to use WMI and query the Win32_Service class. With Windows PowerShell 3.0, use the&nbsp;Get-CimInstance&nbsp;cmdlet, as shown here. PS C:\\&gt; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}