Appendix Managing the Aspera service accountOn Windows, the Aspera service account is special user account that is used to run services for Aspera products. These services include IBM Aspera Central, IBM Aspera HTTPD and IBM Aspera Sync. These instructions describe how to change the password for the Aspera service account and the user account from the default svcAspera.Restarting Aspera servicesWhen you change product settings, you might need to restart certain Aspera® services in order for the new values to take effect.Testing and optimizing transfer performanceTo verify that your system's FASP® transfer is reaching the target rate and can use the maximum bandwidth capacity, prepare a client to connect to an Aspera® server. For these tests, you can transfer an existing file or file set, or you can transfer uninitialized data in place of a source file, which you can delete at the destination, eliminating the need to read from or write to disk and saving disk space.Log filesThe Aspera® log file includes detailed transfer information and can be useful for review and support requests.Connecting to IBM Aspera Shares from the GUIAs of IBM Aspera Shares version 1.9.3, the client must have HSTS, HSTE, or Desktop Client installed in order to access Shares on a server with HSTS, HSTE, or Desktop Client installed.Logging client file system activity on HSTSHSTS can be configured to log operations on the server's file system that are performed from client applications (such as the HSTS in client mode, or Console).Product limitationsDescribes any limitations that currently exist for Aspera transfer server and client products.Parent topic: Desktop Client Guide for Windows