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Brief Information on Windows Services

Services:
Most of the services information are stored in hklm\system\currentcontrolset\{name of the service}

In msi, following tables contain info about services:
Service Install (service details): it can create application based services.
Service Control (controlling service during install and uninstall): it can modify the existing services.

Two kind of services:
Win32 service – which is run by executable file installed by application

System or kernel service – used by OS to communicate to h/w devices.

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