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Larry Serflaten
I'm running Win2000 SP3, and I want to find a listing of exactly
what I need running to operate Windows on a stand-alone system.
When I fire up in Safe Mode, I have 10 processes and 5 services
running:
SERVICES (5)
Logical Disk Manager
Event Log
Plug and Play
Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
Windows Management Instrumentation
(Using WBEM to generate the list)
In that configuration, I don't get my desktop, or normal
monitor resolutions so that isn't enough to use on a
regular basis. I have to ask, why do I need RPC, on a
stand-alone system, in safe-mode?
Anyway, when I boot up Windows normally, I have 15 processes
and 29 services running. I don't need that much running!
Where is the documentation that will help me sort out what
I can disable, or turn off?
I don't need FTP or WWW publishing services everyday, I rarely
ever use a printer, so I don't need the Spooler, and on, and on.
But trying to find out how to control these things is no
small feat. Knowing what should be started automaically, and
what can be started manually, isn't in the description listed
in the Managment consol.
This latest MBlast virus scare has me looking to shut down
RPC altogether, but I noticed it was still loaded in safe-mode
so I don't know if it is safe to disable or what....
Where is some comprehensive, common sense documentation
on all this behind the scenes stuff that is going on? I am
not the one that opened port 135, and I am getting pretty
distressed that there is no concise explainations of using
Windows without going through volumes of technical drivel.
The help that is offered; "This is how you change a property,
Open This, Click on Abc, select menu Xyz, and press OK" Is
hardly indicative of the type of understanding that is needed
to know when to change the property.
Of course, as others have noted, "Contact your administrator"
messages on a single system is of no use whatsoever. Where
is the proper documentation?
LFS
what I need running to operate Windows on a stand-alone system.
When I fire up in Safe Mode, I have 10 processes and 5 services
running:
SERVICES (5)
Logical Disk Manager
Event Log
Plug and Play
Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
Windows Management Instrumentation
(Using WBEM to generate the list)
In that configuration, I don't get my desktop, or normal
monitor resolutions so that isn't enough to use on a
regular basis. I have to ask, why do I need RPC, on a
stand-alone system, in safe-mode?
Anyway, when I boot up Windows normally, I have 15 processes
and 29 services running. I don't need that much running!
Where is the documentation that will help me sort out what
I can disable, or turn off?
I don't need FTP or WWW publishing services everyday, I rarely
ever use a printer, so I don't need the Spooler, and on, and on.
But trying to find out how to control these things is no
small feat. Knowing what should be started automaically, and
what can be started manually, isn't in the description listed
in the Managment consol.
This latest MBlast virus scare has me looking to shut down
RPC altogether, but I noticed it was still loaded in safe-mode
so I don't know if it is safe to disable or what....
Where is some comprehensive, common sense documentation
on all this behind the scenes stuff that is going on? I am
not the one that opened port 135, and I am getting pretty
distressed that there is no concise explainations of using
Windows without going through volumes of technical drivel.
The help that is offered; "This is how you change a property,
Open This, Click on Abc, select menu Xyz, and press OK" Is
hardly indicative of the type of understanding that is needed
to know when to change the property.
Of course, as others have noted, "Contact your administrator"
messages on a single system is of no use whatsoever. Where
is the proper documentation?
LFS