What is the role of the Service Control Manager?

The service functions provide an interface for the following tasks performed by the SCM:

• Maintaining the database of installed services.
• Starting services and driver services either upon system startup or upon demand.
• Enumerating installed services and driver services.
• Maintaining status information for running services and driver services.
• Transmitting control requests to running services.
• Locking and unlocking the service database.