Hi Folks, have you heard that there are many ways to achieve something with PowerShell?
\nThat’s indeed true we only need to take in consideration how big is our script and how much interaction the script will do in your system because it can cause loops, resources consumption and in the end, there is a proper way to do it and you must follow that standard.<\/p>\n
Getting properties of Windows service that is set to Automatic and it’s currently stopped <\/strong><\/p>\n Do you agree both achieve the end result but which one is better?<\/p>\n Here is a nice post about some best practices when scripting! Have fun <\/p>\n\nPS C:\\Windows\\system32> Get-WmiObject -class Win32_service | Where-Object -Property StartMode -EQ -Value Auto | Where-Object -Property state -EQ -Value Stopped | Format-Table\n\nExitCode Name ProcessId StartMode State Status\n-------- ---- --------- --------- ----- ------\n 1067 Automaton 0 Auto Stopped OK \n 0 gupdate 0 Auto Stopped OK \n 0 MapsBroker 0 Auto Stopped OK \n 0 RemoteRegistry 0 Auto Stopped OK \n 0 sppsvc 0 Auto Stopped OK \n 0 TrustedInstaller 0 Auto Stopped OK \n 0 WbioSrvc 0 Auto Stopped OK \n 0 wuauserv 0 Auto Stopped OK \n\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nPS C:\\Windows\\system32> Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq 'Stopped' -and $_.StartType -eq 'Auto'}\n\nStatus Name DisplayName \n------ ---- ----------- \nStopped Automaton EMC SolVe Automaton \nStopped gupdate Google Update Service (gupdate) \nStopped MapsBroker Downloaded Maps Manager \nStopped RemoteRegistry Remote Registry \nStopped sppsvc Software Protection \nStopped TrustedInstaller Windows Modules Installer \nStopped WbioSrvc Windows Biometric Service \nStopped wuauserv Windows Update \n<\/code><\/pre>\n