XP Control Panel: Services, remember preferences???
D Cook
Control Panel->Services
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?
----dale
D Cook
Of course, it's a stupid registry hack. It would be way too much to
ask for the settings to actually be remembered from login to login...
It's also JUST the solution for permanently getting rid of that
useless Extended tab. None of my other preferences are remembered...
Thanks anyway...
----dale
der_c...@yahoo.com (D Cook) wrote in message news:<932d1a65.04081...@posting.google.com>...
post20...@servasur.demon.co.uk
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.