


ServiWin v1.11
Copyright (c) 2003 - 2005 Nir Sofer



Description
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ServiWin utility displays the list of installed drivers and services on
your system. For some of them, additional useful information is
displayed: file description, version, product name, company that created
the driver file, and more.
In addition, ServiWin allows you to easily stop, start, restart, pause,
and continue service or driver, change the startup type of service or
driver (automatic, manual, disabled, boot or system), save the list of
services and drivers to file, or view HTML report of installed
services/drivers in your default browser.



Versions History
================


* Version 1.11: Added support for Windows XP visual styles.
* Version 1.10:
  o Started/Disabled services are marked with different colors.
  o Ability to translate to other languages.
  o The "copy" option nows copies the services/drivers information as
    tab-delimited text, so you can paste it directly to Excel.

* Version 1.00 - First release.



System Requirement
==================

This utility works under Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows NT.
Windows 98 and Windows ME are not supported.



Using ServiWin
==============

This utility is a standalone executable, so it doesn't require any
installation process or additional DLLs. Just run the executable
(serviwin.exe) and start using it.
The main window displays the list of all drivers or services, according
to your selection. You can switch between drivers list and services list
by selecting the desired list from the View menu, or simply use the F7
and F8 keys.
You can select one or more drivers or services from the list, and then
change their status (Stop, Start, Restart, Pause, or Continue) or their
startup type (Automatic, Manual, Disabled, Boot, or System). You can also
save the selected items to text or HTML file (Ctrl + S) or copy this
information to the clipboard.

Warning: Changing the status or the startup type of some drivers or
services may cause to your operating system to work improperly. Do not
disable or stop drivers/services if you are not 100% sure about what you
are doing.



Connecting To Another Computer
==============================

ServiWin allows you to work with drivers/services list of another
computer on your LAN. In order to do that, you must be connected to the
other computer with administrator privileges, as well as admin shares
(\\computer\drive$) should be enabled on that computer.



Colors In ServiWin
==================

Starting from v1.10, ServiWin marks the services and drivers with
different colors according to the following rules:


Blue
All started services/drivers are painted with this color.
ForeColorStarted
BackColorStarted


Red
All disabled services/drivers are painted with this color.
ForeColorDisabled
BackColorDisabled


Purple
All services/drivers that starts automatically by the operating systems
(with 'Automatic' and 'Boot' Startup types) but they are not currently
running.
ForeAutoNotStarted
BackAutoNotStarted


For advanced users only: If you want to view the services/drivers in
different colors, add the approprite Registry value (according to the
above table) to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\NirSoft\ServiWin. Each color
value is DWORD value that represents the color in RGB format.
For example: If you want to mark all started services with yellow
background color, add BackColorStarted value as DWORD containing 'a0ffff'.



Command-Line Options
====================

General syntax:
serviwin [/save type] [drivers | services] [filename] {\\computer}

The [/save type] may contain one of the following values:


/stext
Saves the list of all drivers/services into a regular text file.

/stab
Saves the list of all drivers/services into a tab-delimited text file.

/stabular
Saves the list of all drivers/services into a tabular text file.

/shtml
Saves the list of all drivers/services into horizontal HTML file.

/sverhtml
Saves the list of all drivers/services into vertical HTML file.

The second parameter specifies whether to save the 'services' list or the
'drivers' list.
The [filename] parameter specifies the filename to save the
services/drivers list.
The last parameter, {\\computer} is optional. If you omit this parameter,
the drivers/services list will be loaded from the local computer.


Examples:

serviwin.exe  /shtml services "c:\temp\serv.html" \\comp1
serviwin.exe  /stext drivers "c:\temp\drv.txt"




Translating to another language
===============================

ServiWin allows you to easily translate all menus, dialog-boxes, and
other strings to other languages.
In order to do that, follow the instructions below:
1. Run ServiWin with /savelangfile parameter:
   serviwin.exe /savelangfile
   A file named serviwin_lng.ini will be created in the folder of
   ServiWin utility.
2. Open the created language file in Notepad or in any other text
   editor.
3. Translate all menus, dialog-boxes, and string entries to the
   desired language.
4. After you finish the translation, Run ServiWin, and all translated
   strings will be loaded from the language file.
   If you want to run ServiWin without the translation, simply rename the
   language file, or move it to another folder.



License
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This utility is released as freeware for personal and non-commercial use.
You are allowed to freely distribute this utility via floppy disk,
CD-ROM, Internet, or in any other way, as long as you don't charge
anything for this. If you distribute this utility, you must include all
files in the distribution package, without any modification !



Disclaimer
==========

The software is provided "AS IS" without any warranty, either expressed
or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of
merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The author will not
be liable for any special, incidental, consequential or indirect damages
due to loss of data or any other reason.



Feedback
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If you have any problem, suggestion, comment, or you found a bug in my
utility, you can send a message to nirsofer@yahoo.com


