Are there any log file about Windows Services Status

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I want to figure out when the services was start up and terminated  Are there any kind log file about it

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The most likely place to find this sort of information is in the event viewer  under Administrative tools in XP or run eventvwr   This is where most services log warnings errors etc

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Under Windows 7  open the Event Viewer  You can do this the way Gishu suggested for XP  typing eventvwr from the command line  or by opening the Control Panel  selecting System and Security  then Administrative Tools and finally Event Viewer  It may require UAC approval or an admin password   In the left pane  expand Windows Logs and then System  You can filter the logs with Filter Current Log    from the Actions pane on the right and selecting  Service Control Manager   Or  depending on why you want this information  you might just need to look through the Error entries     The actual log entry pane  not shown  is pretty user-friendly and self-explanatory  You ll be looking for messages like the following       The Praxco Assistant service entered the stopped state      The Windows Image Acquisition  WIA  service entered the running state      The MySQL service terminated unexpectedly  It has done this 3 time s

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Take a look at the System log in Windows EventViewer  eventvwr from the command line   You should see entries with source as  Service Control Manager   e g  on my WinXP machine   Event Type  Information Event Source    Service Control Manager Event Category  None Event ID    7036 Date        7 1 2009 Time        12 09 43 PM User        N A Computer    MyMachine Description  The Background Intelligent Transfer Service service entered the running state   For more information  see Help and Support Center at http   go microsoft com fwlink events asp

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Through the Computer management console  navigate through Event Viewer   Windows Logs   System  Every services that change state will be logged here   You ll see info like  The XXXX service entered the running state or The XXXX service entered the stopped state  etc

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