Recently, my services.msc app has become very unresponsive and slow. Takes a few minutes to just open it. There are a number of issues with the services that are listed, but for one example I'll use AppFabricCachingService.
AppFabricCachingService is listed in services.msc. But if I do a
sc query AppFabricCachingService
I get
C:\WINDOWS\system32>sc query AppFabricCachingService
[SC] EnumQueryServicesStatus:OpenService FAILED 1060:
The specified service does not exist as an installed service.
The AppFabricCachingService is not listed here in the registry either.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
Any thoughts on how to get the services.msc synced with SC and what is actually on the system?
I am using Windows 10
Best Answer
Turns out, I had previously connected my services.msc to another machine (rather than my local machine). When I changed the connection to the remote machine, I didn't think that it would be sticky and persist after closing and reopening the services.msc app. And enough time passed between reopening services.msc that I completely forgot about that change.
It wasn't until that remote machine was powered down for a few days that services.msc would complain at startup that the remote machine's RPC service was not available and would quit.