Why so many Disabled services?

[Terry Pinnell]

In the course of trying to isolate a problem causing internet
disconnection due to RAS Error 678, I examined my Services list. Of
the 89 listed, I was surprised to find that no fewer than the
following 43 of them are 'Disabled'.

I appreciate that circumstances/requirements vary widely. But for a
standalone single XP Home user with no network can anyone advise
whether any of these really should be enabled please?

Name of Service with 'Disabled' Startup Type
---------------------------------------------
Alerter
Application Management
ClipBook
Computer Browser
Creative Service for CDROM Access
Distributed Transaction Coordinator
Error Reporting Service
Fax
IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service
IPSEC Services
Indexing Service
Logical Disk Manager
Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service
MS Software Shadow Copy Provider
Messenger
NT LM Security Support Provider
Net Logon
NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing
Network DDE
Network DDE DSDM
Portable Media Serial Number
QoS RSVP
RIP Listener
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager
Removable Storage
Retrospect Launcher
SNMP Service
SNMP Trap Service
SSDP Discovery Service
Secondary Logon
Security Accounts Manager
Server
Simple TCP/IP Services
Smart Card
Smart Card Helper
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
TCP/IP Print Server
Uninterruptible Power Supply
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
WMDM PMSP Service
WMI Performance Adapter
WebClient
Wireless Zero Configuration

 

[Bigjon]

Terry Pinnell declared:

In the course of trying to isolate a problem causing internet
disconnection due to RAS Error 678, I examined my Services list. Of
the 89 listed, I was surprised to find that no fewer than the
following 43 of them are 'Disabled'.

I appreciate that circumstances/requirements vary widely. But for a
standalone single XP Home user with no network can anyone advise
whether any of these really should be enabled please?

Name of Service with 'Disabled' Startup Type
---------------------------------------------
Alerter
Application Management
ClipBook
Computer Browser
Creative Service for CDROM Access
Distributed Transaction Coordinator
Error Reporting Service
Fax
IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service
IPSEC Services
Indexing Service
Logical Disk Manager
Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service
MS Software Shadow Copy Provider
Messenger
NT LM Security Support Provider
Net Logon
NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing
Network DDE
Network DDE DSDM
Portable Media Serial Number
QoS RSVP
RIP Listener
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager
Removable Storage
Retrospect Launcher
SNMP Service
SNMP Trap Service
SSDP Discovery Service
Secondary Logon
Security Accounts Manager
Server
Simple TCP/IP Services
Smart Card
Smart Card Helper
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
TCP/IP Print Server
Uninterruptible Power Supply
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
WMDM PMSP Service
WMI Performance Adapter
WebClient
Wireless Zero Configuration

Windows XP Home and Professional Configuration :
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/winxp.htm

 

[Adi Oltean [MSFT]]

Hi Terry,

This should never happen. Many of the services below are enabled at
Windows install time and are never disabled (for example the MS
Software Shadow Copy Provider service). If you find how these services
got disabled (third-party apps?) please let us know...

Thanks, Adi


P.S. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no rights.

 

[Steve]

Try this link. It's a lot of reading, but I hope it helps. Good luck.

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm

 

[noone]

someone clearly disabled them "for you". from the list, it looks like
they (sort of) knew what they were doing, most of those are indeed not
essential. If you review the Black Viper site as recommended, you'll
probably find that your machine has been set up as a "bare bones gamer
configuration" [the right-most column.]

Is there a specific problem you're having?