Get startup type of Windows service using PowerShell

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How can I get the Windows service startup type using PowerShell and not using WMI   I looked inside the Get-Service command  and it does not provide something to display the  startup type

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WMI is the way to do this   Get-WmiObject -Query  Select StartMode From Win32 Service Where Name  winmgmt     Or  Get-WmiObject -Class Win32 Service -Property StartMode -Filter  Name  Winmgmt

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If you update to PowerShell 5 you can query all of the services on the machine and display Name and StartType and sort it by StartType for easy viewing   Get-Service  Select-Object -Property Name StartType  Sort-Object -Property StartType

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Use   Get-Service BITS   Select StartType   Or use    Get-Service -Name BITS  StartType   Then  Set-Service BITS -StartupType xxx    PowerShell 5 1

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You can also use the sc tool to set it   You can also call it from PowerShell and add additional checks if needed  The advantage of this tool vs  PowerShell is that the sc tool can also set the start type to auto delayed     Get Service status  Service    Wecsvc  sc exe qc  Service    Set Service status  Service    Wecsvc  sc exe config  Service start  delayed-auto

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With PowerShell version 4   You can run a command as given below      Get-Service   select -property name starttype

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Once you ve upgraded to PowerShell version 5 you can get the startup type   To check the version of PowerShell you re running  use  PSVersionTable   The examples below are for the Windows Firewall Service   For the local system  Get-Service   Select-Object -Property Name Status StartType   where-object     Name -eq  MpsSvc     Format-Table -auto   For one remote system  Get-Service -ComputerName HOSTNAME OF SYSTEM   Select-Object -Property MachineName Name Status StartType   where-object     Name -eq  MpsSvc     Format-Table -auto   For multiple systems  must create the systems txt   Get-Service -ComputerName  Get-content c  systems txt    Select-Object -Property MachineName Name Status StartType   where-object     Name -eq  MpsSvc     Format-Table -auto

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As far as I know there is no    native    PowerShell way of getting this information  And perhaps it is rather the  NET limitation than PowerShell   Here is the suggestion to add this functionality to the version next   https   connect microsoft com PowerShell feedback details 424948 i-would-like-to-see-the-property-starttype-added-to-get-services  The WMI workaround is also there  just in case  I use this WMI solution for my tasks and it works

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You can use also    Get-Service  winmgmt   StartType   It returns just the startup type  for example  disabled

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In PowerShell you can use the command Set-Service   Set-Service -Name Winmgmt -StartupType Manual   I haven t found a PowerShell command to view the startup type though  One would assume that the command Get-Service would provide that  but it doesn t seem to

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It is possible with PowerShell 4   Get-Service  spool    select name starttype   ft -AutoSize   screenshot

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