This tab of the Service action sets additional properties when creating or configuring a service.

 

Dependencies: Semicolon-separated list of names of services that the system must start before this service (optional).

 

Description: The description of the service (optional).

 

Delayed auto-start: If checked, the service is started after other auto-start services are started plus a short delay. Otherwise, the service is started during system boot. This setting is ignored unless the service is an auto-start service.

 

Update recovery options: Check to update recovery settings.

 

Failure: The action to be performed on failure.

 

Delay: The time to wait before performing the specified failure action, in seconds.

 

Reset fail count after: The time after which to reset the failure count to zero if there are no failures, in seconds. Enter -1 to indicate that this value should never be reset.

 

Run program: The command line of the process to execute if the failure action is Run Program. This process runs under the same account as the service.

 

Failure actions flag: If checked and the service has configured failure actions, the failure actions are queued if the service process terminates without reporting a status of SERVICE_STOPPED or if it enters the SERVICE_STOPPED state but the exit code member of the SERVICE_STATUS structure is not ERROR_SUCCESS.  If this unchecked and the service has configured failure actions, the failure actions are queued only if the service terminates without reporting a status of SERVICE_STOPPED. This setting is ignored unless the service has configured failure actions

 

Pre-shutdown timeout: The timeout value in seconds.