How to disable services and drivers – Recovery Console
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How to disable services and drivers – Recovery Console
Introduction: If your computer has a faulty “System Service” or an “infected driver”, there is a high chance that your Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware or Firewall will be disabled by a suspicious malware, or experiencing some conflicts between systems’ services and / or corrupted drivers. However, there is a greater chance that your service or driver is preventing you from starting a system in Safe Mode. So, the only way to work – around this problem, you’ll need to use “Microsoft System Recovery Console”.
Notes: this guide is only for users who had / have a copy of “Windows XP CD”.
For those who doesn’t have it, please obtain a copy of “Windows XP”, it’s cruical if you want to keep your computer alive…instead of reformatting your computer, if your computer had lost a boot file or something. But, for now, this article will only give you parts of the recovery consol command. These command is useful if you want to disable hidden drivers… especially fake drivers (malware).
Tutorial *1: Since Recovery Console have limited syntax, they do behave differently from many of their ‘command line’ counterparts. But, the most useful parts for disabling a driver, outside of Windows is very ideal, as you’re not tampering any parts of the core – files. ie: System32, host, userinit and many more.
For now, we are going to concentrate on these commands…
a.] listsvc
b.] enable
c.] disable
1a.] listsvc command is used to list / show all installed system services and device drivers on a system. In order to disable a service or driver, you need to know its name. You can determine its name by running this command. However, as the list gets longer, you’ll need to type this command: Cls (Clears the screen).
1b.] enable command is used to enable a particular system service or device driver.
The syntax for this console command is…
enable <service> [StartType]
Valid options for start_type are as follows…
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SERVICE_BOOT_START = Driver or service loaded into memory during initial system boot (required to start the operating system)
SERVICE_SYSTEM_START = Driver or service loaded during normal operating system startup.
SERVICE_AUTO_START = Driver or service configured to Auto-Start. Starts when the operating system starts up.
SERVICE_DEMAND_START = Driver or service configured to Manual Start. Starts as a result of action taken by individual user or an application.
1c.] disable command is used to disable a faulty driver or service, that is preventing the system from starting.
Notes: when you run the “disable” command, you need to use the following syntax…
disable <service>
Now, you know the basic! But, please print this off as a guide, or as a backup…
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