How to manage Windows services with eclean Booster

Windows services can run in the background even when no app window is open. eclean gives you a cleaner way to review those services, start or stop them, and change how they start with Windows.

How to manage Windows services

1. Open Services: Go to Booster > Services.
2. Refresh the list: Click Refresh so eclean loads the current service state.
3. Find the service: Search or scroll until you find the service you want to review.
4. Read the visible details: Check the service name, status, and startup type before changing anything.
5. Start or stop the service: Use the Start or Stop button when you only want to change the current running state.
6. Change startup behavior: Use the startup type dropdown to choose Automatic, Automatic (Delayed start), Manual, or Disabled.
7. Check the result: Look for the toast notification and review Booster History if you need a record of the change.

Choosing a startup type

• Automatic starts the service with Windows.
• Automatic (Delayed start) starts the service after core startup work has finished.
• Manual lets Windows or an app start the service only when needed.
• Disabled prevents the service from starting until you enable it again.

Technical deep dive

Services uses the Windows Service Control Manager to enumerate service records. eclean reads the service name, display name, description, running status, executable path, optional command-line arguments, startup type, icon data, and publisher when Windows exposes those fields. It skips entries it treats as system services or entries it cannot safely open for configuration data.

Changing startup type updates the Windows service configuration. If you set a service to Disabled, eclean first tries to stop the service and then applies the disabled startup configuration.

Starting and stopping a service are separate operations. Starting a disabled service changes the startup type to Manual and retries the start. Stopping sends the Windows stop control and waits for the stopped state. Start and stop operations wait up to 15 seconds for the expected state before reporting a timeout.

The service list is cached and backed by a durable snapshot. If fresh enumeration fails, eclean can show the last saved snapshot instead of returning an empty page. After a startup-type change, eclean invalidates the services cache so the next view can reflect the updated configuration.

Updated on: 12/06/2026