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do the services get started at the login screen, or after complete start.<br />
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for example, in vista, the user is prompted after the boot, are the services running at that time? or only after they login into windows, is the services actually getting loaded?<br />
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this is the same for all services? or are there exceptions?
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do the services get started at the login screen, or after complete start.

for example, in vista, the user is prompted after the boot, are the services running at that time? or only after they login into windows, is the services actually getting loaded?

this is the same for all services? or are there exceptions?

services - when do they get started (at boot)

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