How to find service start type in PowerShell V4 and V5

If you have used Get-Service in PowerShell V4, V3, V2 to find the status of a service or to restart a service you may have noticed that the get-service cmdlet does not show you the start type type (Auto, Manual, Disabled). If you run just Get-Service you  will get the following

As you can see the only information display is Status, Name and DisplayName. You can get more information if you run the following cmdlet Get-Service | format-list *  you will get all the information that the cmdlet gives you

If you run Get-Service -name VSS | get-member you will see that start type method is not part of the cmdlet

So in order  to find the start type on PowerShell V4 or before you can use Get-Ciminstance cmdlet. If you run the following cmdlet it will  show start type

Get-CimInstance Win32_Service

Lets say you want to get all the services that start type is Manual. You can use the where-object along with Get-CimInstance

Get-CimInstance Win32_Service | Where-Object {$_.StartMode -eq ‘Manual’}

Now if you want to start  all this service you can pipe the name to start-service

Get-CimInstance Win32_Service | Where-Object {$_.StartMode -eq ‘Manual’} | Select-Object Name | Start-Service

Now let me give you a reason why you want to use PowerShell 5 If you run Get-service | format-list *, you will get the start type o this cmdlet now

As you see StartType is part of the cmdlet now. If you want to get all the startType  = manual you will run the following

Get-Service | Where-Object { $_.StartType -eq ‘Manual’}

 

If you dont trust the information on the screen you can add to the display the startType as  a column

Get-Service | Where-Object { $_.StartType -eq ‘Manual’} | Select-Object status, name, StartType