Lara Kannan

Retrieve a List of the Services Running on your Computer using C#

The ServiceController class can be used to retrieve a list of the services running on your computer. The GetServices() can be used to do so. Here’s an example to list the services that are running on your machine

Add a reference to System.ServiceProcess.

Then write the following code:

using System;
using System.ServiceProcess;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
         {
            try
            {
                ServiceController[] sController = 
                                          ServiceController.GetServices();
                foreach (ServiceController sc in sController)
                {
                    if (sc.Status.ToString() == "Running")
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine(sc.ServiceName);
                    }
                }
                Console.ReadLine();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                // handle ex
            }
        }
    }
}