I *hate* the extended tab, and I cannot figure out how to make the stupid thing remember my settings. The Services control forgets EVERYTHING you do to customize it. Is there a secret way to make it remember? Or is it just permanently stupidly brain dead, and I just have to get used to resizing the window, using the standard tab, don't show me the console tree, etc., every time I open the program?
> I *hate* the extended tab, and I cannot figure out how to make the > stupid thing remember my settings. The Services control forgets > EVERYTHING you do to customize it. Is there a secret way to make it > remember? Or is it just permanently stupidly brain dead, and I just > have to get used to resizing the window, using the standard tab, don't > show me the console tree, etc., every time I open the program?
The "services" entry in control panel is a shortcut to "services.msc" with "/s" on the command line. This is a document that is opened by "mmc". If you change "/s" to "/a" (the paranoid may want to take a copy of services.msc first) you'll start mmc in "author" mode.
The "file" menu now has useful options on it including "save". If you change the view to not include the extraneous "extended" and "console tree" panes and then save it, the "services" entry in control panel appears as you want it to.
You can change the "/a" back to "/s" if you want afterwards.
Obviously you could save anything that you like as "services.msc" - which would probably not be a good idea!
Other ways of getting to services (e.g. "My Computer" / manage / serrvices and applications / services) won't be affected because they don't reference this mmc file.
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