Windows Service Auditor: Version History

Version 4

4.1.0.39 (September 5 2024)

New Features
  • Add the "Startup Type" column to the list of services.
  • Show disabled services in an italics font.
  • Show services with auditing enabled in a bold font.
  • Support for Windows Server 2025.
Fixes & Improvements
  • Improved the handling of non-English text throughout the program.
  • Dropped the SHA-1 digital signature. Executables are digitally signed with SHA-256 alone.
  • Improved logging when troubleshooting.
  • Tweaked the code to improve efficiency when loading the list of services.
  • Fixed a problem loading read-only Windows Services.
  • Fixed a performance issue when an event log contains millions of records.
  • Improved efficiency when reading from the Windows event logs.
  • Support for services that don't return a valid description (e.g. McpManagementService) on Windows 10 and Windows 11.
  • Prevent the user from attempting to start a disabled service.

Version 3

3.0.2.87 (September 23 2021)

New Features
  • Full support for Windows 11
Fixes & Improvements
  • Report file details for the service's executable when exporting to XML.
  • Include the hash value of the service's executable file when exporting to XML.
  • Fixed a bug when exporting trigger GUID values.

Version 2

2.0.4.35 (January 2 2021)

New Features
  • Added support for exporting all services (or the selected service) to XML.
Fixes & Improvements
  • Improved performance when loading 50+ services.
  • Improved performance when loading 1000+ records from the Windows event logs.

Version 1

1.7.0.93 (June 1 2020)

New Features
  • Started tracking audit failures in the Windows Security event log.
Fixes & Improvements
  • Improved performance when loding more than five thousand event log records.

1.6.2.17 (May 3 2020)

New Features
  • (None)
Fixes & Improvements
  • Fixed a bug when representing dates in the "friendly" format.
  • Added extra logging to debug an issue on Windows 8.1.

1.6.0.38 (May 1 2020)

New Features
  • (None)
Fixes & Improvements
  • Fixed a bug when computing the duration between handle open and close Event Log records.

1.5.3.48 (April 26 2020)

New Features
  • Process additional events from the Security Event Logs.
  • Support the copying full event details to the clipboard.
Fixes & Improvements
  • Capture duration on handle requests.
  • Sped up reading from the Event Logs.
  • Better internal logging, for use when troubleshooting.

1.0.0.47 (January 18 2020)

  • Initial release (private).

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Download Windows Service Auditor Version 4.1

1.9 MB EXE
  • Portable — simply download and run
  • For Windows 11/10 and Windows Server 2025/2022/2019/2016
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