Windows 10 default services

Question

Is it possible to filter the windows services using python.

import psutil
psutil.process_iter()

I could get all running services by using psutil Is there any way to filter windows service from the list of services.

Answer 1

It really depends on exactly what you're looking to do, but if you're just looking for a "simple" filter, then you could do something like this:

>>> for i in psutil.process_iter(["pid", "name", "exe"]):
...   if i.info["name"] in ["explorer.exe"]:
...     i.info
...
{'name': 'explorer.exe', 'pid': 2124, 'exe': 'C:\\Windows\\explorer.exe'}

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If you'd like to look for services that are has as path containing windows then you can do this:

for i in psutil.win_service_iter():
  if "windows" in i.binpath().lower():
    print(i.name())

This will spam out a lot of info, a slice of which for me is:

COMSysApp
CoreMessagingRegistrar
cphs
CryptSvc
CscService