A technician is troubleshooting an issue with a critical business application. The technician discovers that the application's associated Windows service, which is set to a startup type of 'Automatic', has failed to start after a system reboot. The technician manually starts the service, and the application begins to function correctly. Which of the following statements BEST describes the outcome of the technician's action?
The service will now run correctly for the current session, but the underlying issue that caused the startup failure has not been resolved.
Manually starting the service automatically diagnoses and repairs the root cause of the startup failure.
The service's startup type will be automatically changed to 'Manual' to prevent future startup errors.
The application will continue to work, but the service will need to be reinstalled to function after the next reboot.
Manually starting a service provides a temporary fix, allowing the application to run for the current user session. However, it does not resolve the underlying issue that prevented the service from starting automatically upon boot. The root cause, such as a dependency failure, permissions issue, or corrupted file, still exists and will likely cause the same problem on the next reboot. Changing the startup type or rebooting does not address the root cause.
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