Solved How to stop a service from running on boot up

[Docfxit]

I see a service running in Process Explorer called VBoxSVC.exe

It runs every time I boot the machine. I can't find it in Services.msc. I don't know the name of the service.

How can I stop it from running every time it boots?

Win7 sp1 64bit

Thanks,

Docfxit

 

[Boozad]

Do you have VirtualBox starting up at boot?

 

[Docfxit]

Yes.

How can I stop it from running every time I re-boot?

It's VBoxSVC.exe

Thanks,

Docfxit

 

[Boozad]

• Click on Start
• Type in msconfig and hit enter
• Click on the Startup tab
• Uncheck VirtualBox
• Click apply
• Reboot

 

[Docfxit]

Thanks for the reply...

I don't have anything in startup called VirtualBox or anything that is starting from the folder VirtualBox was installed in.

Thanks,

Docfxit

 

[Boozad]

I can't actually find any way of ending the process other than uninstalling VBox. Apologies, I thought you had VBox starting at boot.

 

[Docfxit]

VirtualBox doesn't support running a VM as a service. There is a 3rd party that created VBoxVMService.exe. I have Uninstalled their service.

Do you know of a program that will show me the name of this service so I can stop/uninstall it?

Thanks,

Docfxit

 

[whs]

Look into 'Services' whether it is ther. Right click on it > Properties, there you can disable it.

 

[Docfxit]

I can't find it in services.msc.

Thanks,

Docfxit

 

[Docfxit]

I have figured it out.

I re-installed VBoxVmService.
I ran a program that gets installed with VBoxVmService:
VmServiceControl.exe -u
That Uninstalled the VBoxVmService.
Re-booted.

VBoxVmService wasn't running as a service before I reinstalled VBoxVmService.
After installing VBoxVmService and uninstalling the VBoxVmService service VBoxSVC.exe was Uninstalled also.

Thanks for your help,

Docfxit

 

[gregrocker]

There is also a Services tab on msconfig. After Hiding all MS Services, nothing other than your AV needs to be running. Same for Startup tab.

 

[lehnerus2000]

VMware Workstation 7 wants to run a bunch of services constantly.

I changed them all to "Manual" and wrote a batch file, which starts the services and then starts VMW7.
When I close VMW7, the batch file shuts the services down again.

 

[Docfxit]

I'm not running VMWare.

I'm running VirtualBox

 

[lehnerus2000]

I'm not running VMWare.

I'm running VirtualBox

I realise that.
It was an anecdote about my PC.

 

[Ztruker]

What is the point of installing VBoxVmService? What does it gain you over running VirtualBox as normally instaalled?