Start/Stop/Get details for Windows Services

If you are busy with multiple assignments and cater needs from multiple projects, or may be own a laptop with very little resources, you may want to manipulate windows services active on your laptop by Windows PowerShell.

For example, you may keep handy a .csv targeting one assignment, when you start working on that assignment simply stop other bulky windows services and activate the one you are interested in.

Some helpful commands:

#Get-Service | select-object  status  -unique

#Get-Service | where {$_.status -eq "Running"} 

# get all windows services running:

Get-Service | select Name, CanPauseAndContinue, CanShutdown, CanStop, DisplayName, MachineName, ServiceName, ServiceHandle, Status, ServiceType, StartType, Site, Container, @{Name=’RequiredServices’;Expression={[string]::join(“;”, ($_.RequiredServices.Name))}} ,  @{Name=’DependentServices’;Expression={[string]::join(“;”, ($_.DependentServices.Name))}} ,    @{Name=’ServicesDependedOn’;Expression={[string]::join(“;”, ($_.ServicesDependedOn.Name))}} | Export-Csv c:\gm\servs.csv;

#After analysis of output say, you want to start 3 of them and stop 2, but leave one untouched still be in the csv, create a csv something like:

#(consider the dependencies listed in output above to decide order)

#"Name","Start","Stop"

#"MSSQL$HK2012SQL","TRUE","FALSE"

#"SQLAgent$HK2012SQL","TRUE","FALSE"

#"postgresql-x64-9.5","TRUE","FALSE"

#"wuauserv","FALSE","TRUE"

#"wlidsvc","FALSE","TRUE"

#"RpcSs","FALSE","FALSE"

import-csv "C:\gm\input.csv" | foreach-object { write-host $_.Name; if([bool]::Parse($_.Start)){ Start-Service $_.Name}; if([bool]::Parse($_.Stop)){ Stop-Service $_.Name};}

sample commands at :  bitbucket.org/hemantup/orm/src/HEAD/Scripts/services.txt

But if you are more into security and want control over what is happening over your laptop above mentioned might not be sufficient.
You might need to to deep dive into processes like :

Get-Process | Export-csv "c:\gm\pr.csv"