Service Trigger Editor - Start/stop Windows services when certain conditions are met

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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 introduced some cool new features for Windows Services. One of the most important, called Service Triggers, enables Windows Services to be started or stopped when certain conditions are met instead of having to run 24x7. Service Trigger Editor was created to manage this new feature and easily add/edit/view Service Triggers.

 

Service Trigger Editor is a free administrative utility that can add, change, or view the Triggers configured on Windows Services. It only runs on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (and later) as Service Triggers are not supported in earlier versions of Windows.

 

Service Triggers can be created and manipulated using the command-line SC tool (sc.exe). For example, here is SC showing us the triggers associated with the "Windows Time" service:

 

C:\>sc qtriggerinfo w32time
[sC] QueryServiceConfig2 SUCCESS

SERVICE_NAME: w32time

START SERVICE
  DOMAIN JOINED STATUS : 1ce20aba-9851-4421-9430-1ddeb766e809 [DOMAIN JOINED]
STOP SERVICE
  DOMAIN JOINED STATUS : ddaf516e-58c2-4866-9574-c3b615d42ea1 [NOT DOMAIN JOINED]

 

While we found SC to be good enough for occasional use, always having to resort to the command line became a drag when we were integrating Service Triggers into AlwaysUp, our easy-to-use utility that will run any application as a Windows Service. Hence this utility was born.