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my xp sp1 athlon suddenly was stuck on startup with something causeing the
busy pointer to never stop-i couldnt get into anything except by repeated
ctrl/alt/delete to turn things off one by one-discovered it was svchost=ssdp
discovery service?-disabled it from services and everything was fine again,
but what was it doing there in the first place? i like to keep things at a
minimum on my pc and try to turn off everything i can-went into add/remove
windows components and saw a bunch of new things that were never there
before-distributed transaction coordinator,wmi and com+ wont let me remove
them? i'm just a home user not on any network, so i dont need/want any of the
network tools/stuff.- i dont remember downloading or turning on anything new,
but that doesnt mean i havent, if you know what i mean-awhile back, i did
some tweak from kellys corner to add something to windows components, but i
dont remember what it was now-if anyone knows what i did or whats going on,
could you tell me how to turn it off again, or whatever suggestions there
might be-i almost was getting ready to do an xp reload, as i hate when after
awhile, you get all those extra undeleted temps, registry stuff, etc. that
bog down your system-but if i can clear this up, i dont think i'm there yet
busy pointer to never stop-i couldnt get into anything except by repeated
ctrl/alt/delete to turn things off one by one-discovered it was svchost=ssdp
discovery service?-disabled it from services and everything was fine again,
but what was it doing there in the first place? i like to keep things at a
minimum on my pc and try to turn off everything i can-went into add/remove
windows components and saw a bunch of new things that were never there
before-distributed transaction coordinator,wmi and com+ wont let me remove
them? i'm just a home user not on any network, so i dont need/want any of the
network tools/stuff.- i dont remember downloading or turning on anything new,
but that doesnt mean i havent, if you know what i mean-awhile back, i did
some tweak from kellys corner to add something to windows components, but i
dont remember what it was now-if anyone knows what i did or whats going on,
could you tell me how to turn it off again, or whatever suggestions there
might be-i almost was getting ready to do an xp reload, as i hate when after
awhile, you get all those extra undeleted temps, registry stuff, etc. that
bog down your system-but if i can clear this up, i dont think i'm there yet