Patent ID: 8028236

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for customizing a display of system services within an administrative interface comprising the steps of: categorizing system services into functional categories based on functions of the system services, wherein the system services are software programs that constantly run in the background of an operating system that perform actions for the operating system; establishing a plurality of system service profiles based on functional roles of users, each system service profile representing a customized subset of the system services; detecting a request for the presentation of system services from a user; ascertaining an identity of the user and at least one functional role associated with the user; determining at least one of said system service profiles corresponding to the at least one functional role of the user; determining at least one system service to be displayed in accordance with the at least one determined system service profile; and displaying the determined at least one system service within the administrative interface in a manner that the determined at least one system service is navigable based on the functional categories of the determined at least one system service, the at least one determined system service profile corresponding to the user, and computing devices providing the determined at least one system service.