Bobbye
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I accidentally clicked the column that turned everything into auto.
I accidentally single clicked on the manual/auto tab and everything went to auto.
I think I figured out what you're referring to here and no harm done!! You just sorted the Services into groups for Automatic, Manual and Disabled. I click sorts in Ascending order, double click sorts in Descending order. If you scroll down the column, you should see the other groups.
Let me give you something comparable so you'll understand how sorting works:
Right click on the Taskbar> Task Manager> Processes tab> click once on the frame above the Memory column>> the column will sort in ascending order with the higher numbers as you go down. If you double click the same column, now you'll sort the memory usage with the most at the top, getting less as you go down the column.
You didn't change any settings- just the order they were in. That's what you did in the Services Startup column! When the contents of a column are text, it will sort alphabetically and Automatic starts with A so that is the first group. Whew!! It took me a while to figure that one out! So Services have not been changed. When you want to actually change the Startup type of a Service, you need to double click on the Service itself, not the column. Once it's open, you can make the change there.
OK?