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Service Repair

Put Windows Services back to their factory defaults when a tuning guide, "optimizer," or malware has broken them.

What is a Windows Service?

Services are tiny background programs Windows uses to run essential things like networking, printing, and Windows Update. Each service has a Startup Type (Automatic, Manual, Disabled) and a logon identity (Local System, Network Service, etc.). If those settings get changed — by a "tweaking" guide, malware, or an uninstaller that didn't clean up after itself — Windows can misbehave in confusing ways: the printer stops, searches return nothing, updates never install.

Service Repair knows the correct default values for hundreds of Windows services and can restore them one-click at a time.

Quick Reset Groups

Big buttons that restore whole families of related services at once:

Reset Windows Update Services

Fixes wuauserv, BITS, Cryptographic Services, and others. Pair with Windows Update Repair when updates are broken.

Reset Networking Services

Restores DHCP Client, DNS Client, Network Connections, Network Location Awareness, and WLAN AutoConfig. Use when the network works sometimes but not always.

Reset Security Services

Windows Defender, Security Center, Firewall, Base Filtering Engine. Start here if your antivirus won't open or Windows keeps complaining your PC is unprotected.

Reset System Core Services

Critical services that almost everything depends on: RPC, Plug and Play, Task Scheduler, Windows Event Log. Use cautiously — only if the PC is obviously broken.

Reset Print Spooler

Restores the Print Spooler service and clears the stuck print queue. The universal fix for "my printer was working yesterday and now it isn't."

Permission Repairs

Sometimes the service isn't broken — the permissions on it are. Malware and buggy installers sometimes lock services so even administrators can't modify them. The Permission Repair buttons reset the security descriptor on a service back to its out-of-box ACL.

Browser Service Repairs

Chrome, Edge, and some third-party browsers install their own auto-update services. These buttons fix those services if they've been disabled or corrupted (a common symptom is "Chrome can no longer update itself").

The Service List

Below the grouped buttons is a detailed list of every service currently on your PC. For each one, TuneBit shows:

Select a row that's out of spec and click Reset Selected to restore just that service. Handy when you know exactly which service has been messed with.

Don't reset services just for fun. Some services are supposed to be disabled on modern Windows (Fax, Telnet, etc.). TuneBit uses the Microsoft-recommended defaults, but if you have a custom setup — especially on server or enterprise editions — back up your current configuration before doing bulk resets.