turn on services

[Guest]

Several services were disabled. Believe me, I did not choose to have them
disabled and don't understand how that happened.

Anyway, I went to run -- services.msc and changed all of the services that
were turned off to "automatic" and retarted the ones that could be turned on.
However, since I don't know what a lot of those services do, I wonder if
some of them should be "manual" rather than "automatic." Also, should some
of them not be started?

Is there a list of all the services that can tell me that? If not, are
there any that I should be worried about?

Thanks.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Several services were disabled. Believe me, I did not choose to have them
disabled and don't understand how that happened.

WTF are you talking about??

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

Several services were disabled. Believe me, I did not choose to have them
disabled and don't understand how that happened.

Anyway, I went to run -- services.msc and changed all of the services that
were turned off to "automatic" and retarted the ones that could be turned on.
However, since I don't know what a lot of those services do, I wonder if
some of them should be "manual" rather than "automatic." Also, should some
of them not be started?

Is there a list of all the services that can tell me that? If not, are
there any that I should be worried about?

Thanks.

2/3 way down http://aumha.org/a/loads.htm is good.
HTH-Larry

 

[Dave Patrick]

Here you go.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../en-us/sys_srv_default_settings.mspx?mfr=true

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

 

[Rock]

Several services were disabled. Believe me, I did not choose to have them
disabled and don't understand how that happened.

Anyway, I went to run -- services.msc and changed all of the services that
were turned off to "automatic" and retarted the ones that could be turned
on.
However, since I don't know what a lot of those services do, I wonder if
some of them should be "manual" rather than "automatic." Also, should
some
of them not be started?

Is there a list of all the services that can tell me that? If not, are
there any that I should be worried about?

What services were disabled?

Take a look here for info on services and their standard settings.
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm

As to what caused the changes, you need to investigate that. What changes
were made to the system right before this happened - software? Hardware?
drivers?

What is the malware status of the computer and how do you check that?

Malware Removal
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

THE PARASITE FIGHT
Finding, Removing & Protecting Yourself From Scumware
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm

Richard Harper’s Guide to Cleaning Pests
http://rgharper.mvps.org/cleanit.htm

 

[mikeyhsd]

http://www.blackviper.com/index.html
has list of services and recommendations as to settings, auto, manual, disabled.
as well as what they are by default.



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Several services were disabled. Believe me, I did not choose to have them
disabled and don't understand how that happened.

Anyway, I went to run -- services.msc and changed all of the services that
were turned off to "automatic" and retarted the ones that could be turned on.
However, since I don't know what a lot of those services do, I wonder if
some of them should be "manual" rather than "automatic." Also, should some
of them not be started?

Is there a list of all the services that can tell me that? If not, are
there any that I should be worried about?

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Someone suggested that I turn off some of the startup programs on the system
configuration utility (I since found out that is not the best way to do it).

Somehow a bunch of services got turned off. It is puzzling because I
certainly did not want to turn any services off. I don't know how to explain
it and was certainly surprised after several hours of trying to figure out
what was wrong. I did a lot of checking for viruses and malware and suppose
that they could have been the cause but I doubt it.

I don't know which services were turned off but there were quite a few.

Thank you for the concern and references. I may well need them in the
future.

 

[Rock]

Someone suggested that I turn off some of the startup programs on the
system
configuration utility (I since found out that is not the best way to do
it).

Somehow a bunch of services got turned off. It is puzzling because I
certainly did not want to turn any services off. I don't know how to
explain
it and was certainly surprised after several hours of trying to figure out
what was wrong. I did a lot of checking for viruses and malware and
suppose
that they could have been the cause but I doubt it.

I don't know which services were turned off but there were quite a few.

Thank you for the concern and references. I may well need them in the
future.

Ok, good luck. Post back if you have any more questions.