Monday 10 September 2012

How To: Stop Windows Service from stopping unexpectedly

There are a number of reasons why a service stops abruptly on your Windows server. Regardless of the cause, below is a Step-By-Step solution to the problem

1. Go to Administrative Tools => Services

2. Right Click "The Service" and Click Properties

3. Click the Recovery Tab

4. Set The Following

* First Failure = Restart the service
*Second Failure = Restart the service
*Subsequent failures = Restart the service
*Reset fail count after = (Any number >1)
*Restart Service after = 0

5. Click Ok

See!!! very easy steps and your problem is solved.


1 comment:

  1. Thank you sooooooooooooo much! You just made my weekend better, and happy hour now sounds more appealing than coding and deploying this evening.

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