How to Start, Stop, Restart, Enable, and Disable Services in Windows 10 Services are an application type that runs in the system background without a user interface. Services provide core operating system features (such as printing, networking, remote access, File Explorer, Windows Search, updates, etc.) and apps to operate as intended. More @Wikipedia
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