Be a power user with ServiWin from Nirsoft

One of the most trusted names in freeware is Nirsoft. We’ve been using his utilities for a long time, and he still continues to churn out Windows utilities continuously… and most of what he does is minimalistic, but excellent. No fancy graphical user interfaces here.

Rarely do we feature something which we think would be better in the hands of advanced users, but this an exception. Those of you who are not advanced users should use this utility with extreme caution. If used incorrectly, you could really cause some problems. On the other hand, if you want to learn more about the inner-workings of your computer, this utility can help you by showing you all the things it takes to make Windows work for you. And you’ll also learn why Windows can be so touchy, especially when it comes to drivers – when you see how many drivers are running under the hood. Which is why we remind you to never update drivers unless your hardware isn’t working correctly. Updating drivers that don’t require updating can be a recipe for disaster.

Anyway…

If you’re an advanced user and you really want to dig down deep into your computer, this handy free program makes it a breeze. You can also use it to start, stop, and reset your drivers and services, so it really is a very powerful program. Remember, if you’re using 64-bit Windows, you must run this program with elevated privileges.

We’ll close with a few words from the developer:

“ServiWin utility displays the list of installed drivers and services on your system. For some of them, additional useful information is displayed: file description, version, product name, company that created the driver file, and more.

In addition, ServiWin allows you to easily stop, start, restart, pause, and continue service or driver, change the startup type of service or driver (automatic, manual, disabled, boot or system), save the list of services and drivers to file, or view HTML report of installed services/drivers in your default browser…”

You can read more and/or download ServiWin (installer or zip file, no installation needed), from http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/serviwin.html  .

If you’re not an advanced user and you want to be, this tool is a great way to learn more about what makes Windows tick. So download it and try it, but be very careful if you use it to make any system changes. If you’re not sure what you’re doing, don’t do it.

Works on Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8x and Windows 10; it works on both 32-bit and 64-bit computers. NOTE: Those using 64-bit computers will have to run this program as administrator.