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How installers use Restart Manager to find file users, coordinate shutdown and restart, and distinguish a reduced reboot rate from guaranteed replacement.
A recovery-first method for Haiku launch_daemon loops: preserve first-failure evidence, inspect the roster and graph, isolate overrides, and verify readiness.
A systems-level explanation of Haiku launch_daemon jobs and services, demand activation, dependencies, readiness, configuration, and diagnosis.
Why enabling systemd in WSL does not guarantee daemon permanence, and how services should actually handle WSL's own lifecycle events.
systemctl reports start-limit-hit when systemd's crash-loop protection trips - clearing the rate limit is a distinct step after fixing the real cause.
Diagnosing whether a repeatedly crashing Print Spooler is a corrupted driver, a stuck job, or a security patch conflict, and clearing each correctly.
Why Windows services stopped interacting with the desktop starting with Vista, and what changed in the session architecture to cause that.
How the Service Control Manager starts, stops, and supervises background processes, and how to configure and debug a service directly.