* alex23:
News123 <news...@free.fr> wrote:
What is the best way with python to get a list of all windows services.
As a start I would be glad to receive only the service names.
However it would be nicer if I could get all the properties of a service
as well.
I highly recommend Tim Golden's fantastic WMI module[1].
It's probably Very Good, but one Microsoft-thing one should be aware of: using
WMI functionality generally starts up a background WMI service...
Similarly, starting the standard clipboard viewer (discontinued in Windows
Vista) starts up a silly copy-clipboard-contents-over-network service.
On a low-range machine the WMI service can be a resource concern.
I don't know whether the WMI service is a security concern (it probably is,
considering IIS and anything Microsoft+Network and that WMI is meant to
administrate machines over network, it's an enterprise thing not a personal
computer user thing), but the clipboard service is, as I recall, a concern.
>>> import wmi
>>> c = wmi.WMI()
>>> services = c.Win32_Service()
>>> s = services[0]
>>> s
<_wmi_object: \\LIB-D5NYF1S\root
\cimv2:Win32_Service.Name="Alerter">
>>> s.properties
{u'DisplayName': None, u'ServiceSpecificExitCode': None, u'State':
None, u'Syste
mName': None, u'ErrorControl': None, u'Status': None,
u'ProcessId': None, u'Desc
ription': None, u'Started': None, u'AcceptStop': None,
u'CheckPoint': None, u'Pa
thName': None, u'WaitHint': None, u'Name': None, u'InstallDate':
None, u'Caption
': None, u'StartMode': None, u'DesktopInteract': None,
u'ServiceType': None, u'T
agId': None, u'StartName': None, u'AcceptPause': None,
u'CreationClassName': Non
e, u'SystemCreationClassName': None, u'ExitCode': None}
>>> s.Name
u'Alerter'
>>> s.Started
False
>>> s.ServiceType
u'Share Process'
1: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/index.html
Cheers,
- Alf
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