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Administrators can find out the name of the binary for any service, and whether it shares a process with other services, by running this command from the command prompt:
sc qc ServiceName
SC can help match up services in the Services node in Microsoft Management Console (MMC) with processes in System Monitor. If the binary name is Services.exe, the service shares the Service Controller process.
Services.exe, Service Controller (also known as Service Control Manager), starts all the services. A number of Win32 services developed for Windows 2000 have been written to share the Service Controller's process, in order to conserve system resources. These services don't show up as separate processes in System Monitor.
Win32 services developed by third parties can also be configured to share processes with each other, so there might not be a process for every other service. SC can be used to get configuration information on these services. If a service doesn't share its process with other services, however, there will be a process for it in System Monitor when the service is running.