Switch Between Different Service Profiles

Martin Brinkmann
Aug 11, 2008
Updated • Mar 2, 2011
Software, Windows, Windows XP
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Windows XP does not offer a way to quickly switch between different service profiles. The only way would be to enable or disable all services manually which would be quite a lot of work. Service Profiles was an entry to the Donation Coder programming competition and it rightfully got a price there.

The PC Software, which comes in a 32-bit, 64-bit and Source Code edition for Windows XP, provides an easy to use interface to create Service Profiles. Let me explain where that could be useful: You might want to use a "fast" configuration to maximize system resources for an application, you also might want to create on profile to download and install updates from Microsoft and probably a third that uses all the services that you need in your daily routine.

The PC software asks you to create a backup of the current state which I would highly recommend. The main program interface displays the services with various information, a description pane and one that will contain the various profiles.

Each service is listed with its current state, start type, display name, description and a check box that can be used to change the active state and startup type for the selected service by right-clicking it. All the other services will be taken from the default profile and remain as is unless you change them as well.

The "play" button will activate a selected Services profile. The application developer has included sample profiles taken from Black Viper's service configuration website which can be applied to the application as well.

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Comments

  1. Srinivasa said on September 30, 2011 at 6:57 am
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    I am wondering how I can SAVE different service profiles and use them as needed? At present, there is no “SAVE” or “SAVE AS” option in this program.

    Any thoughts?

    1. Martin Brinkmann said on September 30, 2011 at 8:54 am
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      I do not have the program on my Pc anymore. Have you looked at the File menu?

  2. Lucas Davenport said on August 11, 2008 at 2:29 pm
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    I have been using a program for years that does much the same thing and more in some ways. This program is called pserv.cpl and is available at http://p-nand-q.com/e/pserv.html

    The program was written before we had 64 bit processors and appears to only support 32 bit processors. Still, because of familiarity, I like it. This new program is certainly a great one.

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