Opening Services; Starting Or Stopping The Agent Service - Symantec GHOST 14 Manual

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Best practices for using services

Opening Services

Starting or stopping the agent service

Best practices for using services (continued)
Table 9-1
Best practice
Use caution when changing default
settings for the Norton Ghost Agent.
There are several methods you can use to open Services to manage the Norton
Ghost Agent.
To open Services
1
Do one of the following:
On the Windows Vista taskbar, click Start > Control Panel > Classic View
> Administrative Tools, and then double-click Services.
On the Windows taskbar, click Start > Settings > Control Panel >
Administrative Tools > Services.
On the Windows XP taskbar, click Start > Control Panel > Performance
and Maintenance > Administrative Tools, and then double-click Services.
On the Windows taskbar, click Start > Run.
In the Open text field, type services.msc, and then click OK.
2
Under the Name column, scroll through the list of services until you see
Norton Ghost (the name of the agent).
Its status should be Started.
See "Starting or stopping the agent service"
To start, stop, or restart the Norton Ghost Agent service, you must be logged on
as an administrator. (If your computer is connected to a network, network policy
settings might prevent you from completing these tasks.)
You might need to start, stop, or restart the Norton Ghost Agent service for the
following reasons:
Description
Changing the default Norton Ghost Agent
properties can prevent Norton Ghost from
running correctly. You should use caution when
changing the default Startup type and Log On
settings of the Norton Ghost Agent. It is
configured to start and log on automatically when
you start Norton Ghost .
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