Hyper-V Heartbeat Service (vmicheartbeat) Defaults in Windows 10
Monitors the state of this virtual machine by reporting a heartbeat at regular intervals. This service helps you identify running virtual machines that have stopped responding.
Default Settings
| Startup type: | Manual |
| Display name: | Hyper-V Heartbeat Service |
| Service name: | vmicheartbeat |
| Service type: | share |
| Error control: | normal |
| Object: | LocalSystem |
| Path: | %SystemRoot%\system32\svchost.exe -k ICService -p |
| File: | %SystemRoot%\System32\icsvc.dll |
| Registry key: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\vmicheartbeat |
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Default Behavior
Hyper-V Heartbeat Service is a Win32 service. In Windows 10 it is starting only if the user, an application or another service starts it. When the Hyper-V Heartbeat Service is started, it is running as LocalSystem in a shared process of svchost.exe along with other services. If Hyper-V Heartbeat Service fails to start, the failure details are being recorded into Event Log. Then Windows 10 will start up and notify the user that the vmicheartbeat service has failed to start due to the error.
Restore Default Startup Configuration of Hyper-V Heartbeat Service
1. Run the Command Prompt as an administrator.
2. Copy the command below, paste it into the command window and press ENTER:
sc config vmicheartbeat start= demand
3. Close the command window and restart the computer.
The vmicheartbeat service is using the icsvc.dll file that is located in the C:\Windows\System32 directory. If the file is removed or corrupted, read this article to restore its original version from Windows 10 installation media.