

While the first component focuses on what happens at boot, the “Trigger Start” wording indicates if the service can be started or stopped by various operating system events.įor example, some services are configured to start when a USB drive is inserted. There are other startup types too but those will be explained in a future article. Manual means “don’t start the service at boot it may be started at some other time”. The first component tells Windows what to do with the service when the computer boots.Īutomatic says “start this service when the computer boots”.

Let’s break down each of the start type names into their two components, to understand what the Services application is trying to communicate.
