Anyone know how to switch a service from automatic to automatic (delayed start)?

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Trying to change a service from automatic start to automatic delayed started because there seems to be some issues with the service not starting up upon user login.

What I have tried:

I'm using Spooler as the target service for test purposes.
The part where I'm stuck is getting my batch file to change the services' startup type.

I've typed:
sc config Spooler start= delayed-auto
Result: Access Denied
Ran CMD as admin and retried to receive: Parameter is incorrect

can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong here. Please.

Posted 7-Feb-19 4:31am

Graeme Cooper

Updated 17-May-22 4:27am

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Richard MacCutchan 7-Feb-19 10:52am

Which parameter is incorrect?

Graeme Cooper 7-Feb-19 11:25am

after entering the command the message given is:
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig2 (delayed autostart flag) FAILED 87:

The parameter is incorrect.

Source used: https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/q-how-can-i-set-service-automatic-delayed-start-command-line

Graeme Cooper 7-Feb-19 11:31am

(Trying to work within the confines of a batch file)

Richard MacCutchan 7-Feb-19 11:47am

I get the same thing; I assume that for some reason you are not allowed modify it. You could try going to the Services control from Task Manager and see if you can modify it from there. You may need to stop it first. But, it may be that this is a system controlled service that does not allow modification.

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Solution 3

If your service is part of a load order group it cannot be changed to use delayed auto start. You would need to remove it from the load order group.

For example, for the print spooler:

sc config Spooler group = ""
sc config Spooler start=delayed-auto

Posted 17-May-22 4:27am

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CHill60 · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-07T05:53:00

Solution 1

It seems you and Richard are not the only ones!

I was going to suggest the same thing that @Richar-MacCutchan has just mentioned - i.e. you may need to stop or disable it first.

In the meantime I did find a work-around here at ITExperience.NET[^] (Caveat - I have not tried this myself)

Posted 7-Feb-19 5:53am

CHill60

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Maciej Los 7-Feb-19 14:10pm

5ed!

Richard MacCutchan 7-Feb-19 14:24pm

Richar ?

CHill60 7-Feb-19 15:12pm

I was in my french phase

Graeme Cooper 11-Feb-19 9:12am

This method does indeed work, however my situation doesn't allow me to follow the instructions in the link.

CHill60 11-Feb-19 9:16am

Were you running regedit as admin? Or try launching it from the cmd window you opened as admin

Graeme Cooper 11-Feb-19 10:44am

running a simple batch file using cmd.

Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-07T06:17:00

Solution 2

Easy. The print spooler doesn't support delayed auto start.

Posted 7-Feb-19 6:17am

Dave Kreskowiak

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Richard MacCutchan 7-Feb-19 14:25pm

I had a feeling that was the real reason.

Graeme Cooper 8-Feb-19 5:22am

....Ok, thanks for that

Graeme Cooper 8-Feb-19 5:31am

Know of an alternative service I could use?

Dave Kreskowiak 8-Feb-19 8:15am

I don't know of anyone that would invest the money into replacing the Windows Spooler.

Dave Kreskowiak 8-Feb-19 8:16am

The more important question is why would you want to change the startup behavior of the Spooler?

Graeme Cooper 8-Feb-19 9:22am

umm...you didn't read the "what I have tried" section nor did you read my last comment properly. For test purposes I decided to use Spooler.

Dave Kreskowiak 8-Feb-19 9:52am

Yes, I did read them.

Since the Spooler depends on RPC and the HTTP services running properly, I would start there, and not with the Spooler itself.

The HTTP service is my first suspect.

Graeme Cooper 11-Feb-19 9:14am

You're probably correct, however I've gotten the command to work by changing the name of the service. Thanks for the help thus far.

Dave Kreskowiak 11-Feb-19 10:15am

You got around a problem, but didn't solve it.

Graeme Cooper 11-Feb-19 10:43am

Yes, as soon as I was told by you @Dave Kreskowiak that "Easy. The print spooler doesn't support delayed auto start". I started looking for another service to test.

Dave Kreskowiak 11-Feb-19 11:15am

OK. I thought you were having a problem with the Spooler service itself.