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What is services.exe?

Part of Services and Controller app by Microsoft

What is it?

Service Control Manager (SCM) is a special system process which starts, stops and interacts with Windows service processes. The SCM executable, Services.exe, runs as a Windows console program, and is launched by the Wininit process early during the system startup.
(services.exe is a system file that is installed with Windows)
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How does services.exe run?

Process - services.exe is an instance of a running program. This program executes under the SYSTEM account within Windows with extensive privileges on the local computer, and acts as the computer on the network. services.exe is executed by the process wininit.exe (Windows Start-Up Application by Microsoft).

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What is the community is seeing?What is the community is doing?
About 0.2% of all Boost users have the services.exe process running.Of the 0.2% of services.exe users, less than 1% have disabled it.
How stable is Services and Controller app?
Based on crash data discovered by Boost, stability is a measure of how sound this particular process and the average percent of times it crashes.
     services.exe0.03%
Typical program1.26%
How resource intensive is services.exe?
Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.
0.00258% CPU25788.4%
Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.
8.44 MB RAM39.2%
Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.
 23 /min1.0%
Average I/O read and write operations for all programs is 2,253 per minute.
92 context switches/sec92.0%
Average context switches for all programs is 100 per second.
Typical file (disk image) location:
C:\Windows\System32\services.exe

Are there other versions of Services and Controller app?

services.exe - version 6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247)
services.exe - version 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
services.exe - version 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255) (this)
services.exe - version 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)
services.exe - version 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)
services.exe - version 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)
services.exe - version 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)
Why are multiple of the same versions listed?

What modules are loaded?

A module is a dynamic link library (DLL) or an executable file that is loaded into the process. Below is a list of non-system modules that are loaded by Services and Controller app.
avsda64.dll (Avira Free Antivirus by Avira Operations GmbH & Co KG)
avsda64.dll (Avira Internet Security by Avira Operations GmbH & Co KG)
ctxsbxhook64.dll (Citrix offline plug-in by CITRIX SYSTEMS)

What else is related?

msxml4a.dll (Microsoft(R) MSXML 4.0 SP1 by Microsoft)
msxml4r.dll (Microsoft(R) MSXML 4.0 SP1 by Microsoft)
msxml4.dll (Microsoft(R) MSXML 4.0 SP 2 by Microsoft)
freecell.exe (Entertainment Pack FreeCell Game by Microsoft)
wiaacmgr.exe (Windows Picture Acquisition Wizard by Microsoft)
prodaiintl1033.dll (ProdAddInIntl by Microsoft)
mimectl.dll (Microsoft® Exchange by Microsoft)
msvcp60.dll (Microsoft (R) Visual C++ by Microsoft)
rstrui.exe (System Restore Application by Microsoft)
dismhost.exe (Dism Host Servicing Process by Microsoft)
bcmsqlstartupsvc.exe (Business Contact Manager for Microsoft Outlook 2010 by Microsoft)
msonsext.dll (Microsoft Office by Microsoft)
encwcbar.dll (Microsoft Encarta by Microsoft)
workfolderssvc.dll (Microsoft® Work Folders Service by Microsoft)
appreadiness.dll (AppReadiness by Microsoft)
ole32.dll (Microsoft OLE for Windows by Microsoft)
microsoft.biztalk.brmacontrols.dll (Microsoft (R) BizTalk (R) Server 2010 by Microsoft)
ssoconfig.exe (Microsoft® Enterprise Single Sign-On by Microsoft)
webfarmservice.exe (Microsoft IIS Extensions by Microsoft)
tfsjobagent.exe (Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 by Microsoft)
tfsbuildservicehost.exe (Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 by Microsoft)
ruleengineupdateservice.exe (Microsoft (R) BizTalk (R) Server 2010 by Microsoft)

Services and Controller app Stability

services.exe crashes or has encountered a critical error 0.8900% of the time.
1.  
Error: Stopped working (APPCRASH)
Crashing module: ntdll.dll (still researching...)
Occurred: over 6 months ago

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Windows 7 Enterprise (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Professional (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Ultimate N (6.1.7600.0)
Windows Seven Black Edition (6.1.7600.0)
Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7600.196608)
Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7601.65536)
Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7601.65536)
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (6.1.7601.65536)
Microsoft Windows XP (6.1.7601.65536)

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File details

File name: services.exe
Publisher: Microsoft Corporation (verified)
Name: Services and Controller app
Description: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Version: 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
Product version: 6.1.7600.16385
Size: 321 KB
Original file name: services.exe.mui
Windows file protection: Yes

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages
Total CPU: 0.0048877992%
Privileged CPU: 0.0023089574%
User CPU: 0.00257884184643%
Privileged CPU time: 22642891.16 ms
Privileged CPU time /min: 6,400 ms
CPU cycle count: 15,663,118
CPU cycle count /min: 105,152,445
Context switches /sec: 92
Memory utilization averages
Committed memory: 45.88 MB
Peak committed memory: 75.01 MB
Paged memory: 8.44 MB
Peak paged memory: 12.16 MB
Paged system memory: 71.26 KB
Non-paged system memory: 18.45 KB
Working set memory: 10.58 MB
Peak working set memory: 15.99 MB
Min working set memory: 7.43 MB
Private memory: 8.44 MB
Page faults: 281,248
Page faults /min: 115
Process I/O averages
Total read operations: 25,557
Read operations /min: 14
Total read transfer: 11.34 MB
Read transfer /min: 16.72 KB
Total write operations: 1,496
Write operations /min: 9
Total write transfer: 6.34 MB
Write transfer /min: 36.45 KB
Total other operations: 670,011
Other operations /min: 105
Total other transfer: 3.52 MB
Other Transfer /min: 3.17 KB
Resources
Handle count average: 284
Thread count average: 10
Thread resource averages
ntdll.dll
ntdll.dll
ntdll.dll
ntdll.dll
ntdll.dll
ntdll.dll
ntdll.dll
ntdll.dll
ntdll.dll
ntdll.dll
ubpm.dll
msvcr80.dll

Process details

Runs as (owner): System
Integrety level: System
Windows platform: 64-bit
Parent Process
wininit.exe (Windows Start-Up Application by Microsoft)
Child Processes
svchost.exe (Host Process for Windows Services by Microsoft)
wmpnetwk.exe (Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service by Microsoft)
wlidsvc.exe (Microsoft® CoReXT by Microsoft)
taskhost.exe (Host Process for Windows Tasks by Microsoft)
searchindexer.exe (Windows® Search by Microsoft)
presentationfontcache.exe (Microsoft® .NET Framework by Microsoft)
osppsvc.exe (Microsoft® Office by Microsoft)
wlidsvc.exe (Microsoft® CoReXT by Microsoft)
cvhsvc.exe (Microsoft Office 2010 by Microsoft)
sftvsa.exe (Microsoft Application Virtualization by Microsoft)
sftlist.exe (Microsoft Application Virtualization by Microsoft)
Process Commands
C:\Windows\system32\services.exe
C:\Windows\System32\services.exe

Network connectivity

TCP: localhost on port 49156
TCP: localhost on port 49238
TCP: localhost on port 49169
TCP: localhost on port 49155
TCP: localhost on port 49158
TCP: localhost on port 1039
TCP: localhost on port 1029
TCP: localhost on port 49162
TCP: localhost on port 49159
TCP: localhost on port 49165
TCP: localhost on port 49265
TCP: localhost on port 49157

Image hashes

MD5: 24acb7e5be595468e3b9aa488b9b4fcb
SHA-1: a5b16a7d28d2ba79a9ccfc16ed480ad75a757166
SHA-256: 63541e3432fce953f266ae553e7a394978d6ee3db52388d885f668cf42c5e7e2

PE image details

Langauge*: Microsoft Visual C++
File entropy: 6.44934
File packed: No
Import Table
advapi32.dll
api-ms-win-core-crt-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-crt-l2-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-core-file-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-heap-obsolete-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-interlocked-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-interlocked-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-io-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-io-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-core-localregistry-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-misc-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-processenvironment-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-processenvironment-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-registry-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-threadpool-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-security-base-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-security-base-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-security-lsalookup-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-security-lsalookup-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-security-sddl-l1-1-0.dll
cryptbase.dll
kernel32.dll
msvcrt.dll
ncobjapi.dll
ntdll.dll
rpcrt4.dll
scesrv.dll
sspicli.dll
user32.dll
userenv.dll
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