Recovery
You
may also customize the Recovery options for a Service in the
event the Service fails/stops running for some reason. To do so,
Right click on the Service in question, select Properties,
then the Recovery tab. Most Users should leave the
Failure response setting at their default, although a minority
of you (System Administrators take note) may benefit from changing
the default Failure response settings. Options available are
as follows;
Take
No Action. As you can probably guess, selecting this option will
result in no action being taken should the Service fail.
Restart
the Service. Windows 2000 will attempt to re-initialize
the Service in the event of it failing. Upon selecting this option
you may set the amount of time (In minutes) that you wish the service
to be re-initialized in the Restart service after field.
Run
a File. Should the Service fail Windows 2000 will run a file, as
selected in the Run File section of this tab. Ideally, the
file which is selected to run should require a minimal amount
of User input (Preferably none at all).
Reboot
the Computer. Should the Service fail, the Computer will reboot &
restart Windows. This setting should be considered the final option
you select, rather than a first.
Reset
fail count after. In this field set the number of days after
which you wish the Failure count to be reset. I'd recommend leaving
this set to 0.
First/Second/Subsequent
failures. In this drop down menus select the Action you wish to
take should the Service fail. The options available are described
above, e.g. For First failure you might select Restart the
Service, while for the Second failure you could select
Reboot the Computer, & so on.
Conclusion
By
now you should have finished customizing your system Services
settings. Hopefully by now you will have reduced the amount of Memory
consumed by the Services program (services.exe), disabled
certain Services to improve your systems security or just configured
the Services to enhance your Networked environment, or Standalone
operating environment.
In
my case with default installation settings for system Services, they
used around 4MB of memory. After customizing the Startup type
for the Services, disabling others & Uninstalling other
Services, memory consumption for services.exe was reduced by
almost 60%, down to 1.4MB of memory.
If
you are interested in further tweaking Windows 2000 then check out
our OS &
Software Resources section for other Windows 2000 specific
guides. This guide may be updated in the future with
more relevant information, such as extra Services & such. Email
me with any
comments/suggestions you may have about this guide.
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