How can the WMI be accessed and processes be read in PHP to retrieve service names?

To access WMI and read processes in PHP to retrieve service names, you can use the COM class in PHP to interact with the Windows COM objects. You can create a new COM object for the WMI service and then query the processes to retrieve the service names. 

$wmi = new COM('winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}//./root/cimv2');
$processes = $wmi->ExecQuery('SELECT * FROM Win32_Process');

foreach($processes as $process) {
    echo $process->GetOwner() . " - " . $process->Name . PHP_EOL;
}

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