When a critical service fails in Windows 7, it can stop your users dead in their tracks. And, while it’s always a good idea for IT to notice the failure and troubleshoot the underlying problem, sometimes you just need to restart the service as quickly as possible and get your users back up and running. So during this week’s episode of TR Dojo, I show you how to configure a Windows 7 service to automatically restart after it fails.

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