Service debugging and development

I came across two good posts from Larry Osterman on service debugging:

• Breaking Up (shared services) Is(n't) Hard To Do
• Useful service tricks - Debugging service startup

I also found a great reference on services in an older book by Jeffrey Richter and D. Jason Clark:

Figuring out what's running in all those svchost instances

tasklist /svc /fo list

If you're using Sysinternals's Process Explorer, just hover over a svchost instance to see what it's hosting.

You can't drill down into the individual services, but that should help track down errant services which are consuming lots of CPU and/or memory.

Taken from this CodeProject thread in The Lounge.