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Yes. I actually have the PDF that they used to offer
as download, and I've studied it quite a bit. I was
just curious about your list, since I'm new at corraling
XP.
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OK, here's the list of services I have running. Non-windows services are
called out by the app that uses them.
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AVG7 Alert Manager AVG
AVG Update Service AVG
COM+ Event System
DNS Client
Error Reporting Service
Event Log
Help & Support
IPSEC Services
Logical Disk Manager
Machine Debug Manager
PDAgent PerfectDisk v8.x
PDEngine PerfectDisk v8.x
Plug & Play
Print Spooler
Remote Procedure Call
Security Accounts Manager
Server
Shell Hardware Detection
System Even Notification
Terminal Services
Themes
TrueVector Net Monitor ZoneAlarm 4.x
Windows Audio
Windows Image Acquisition
Windows Management Interface
Windows UserMode Driver Framework
Workstation
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I don't know much about COM+ Event System.
Help & Support is useless.
IPSEC services may not be needed for me.
Machine Debugger wuldn't be necessary if I wasn't using VS6.
Terminal Services is only needed if you want to remote into your PC.
Themes, IMO, are necessary. You're still in Win2K right ? If you are fine
with that style of window, the Theme service is not needed.

Ones I did't comment on here are either needed, or I'm not sure.

I had just found out that if you go into MSConfig-->Services tab, and
click the 'Disable All' button, it will disable all services except MS
services that are absolutely needed by Windows. Whether or not true, I'm
not sure, I haven't tried that yet.

Have you d/l'd Sysinternal Process Explorer from MS yet ? It is FAR
superior to the intrinsic Task Manager, and easily shows you what
services are running in each svchost.exe.

Hmmmmm. I wonder if you can tell XP what services to group together under
each svchost.exe instance.

It's somewhat bizarre...I've got 4 svchost.exe's running. One hosts RPC,
one hosts DNS client, one hosts Windows Image Acquisition, and one hosts
the rest except for the print spooler. That is hosted by spoolsv.exe.

In my opinion, all of those services could be hosted by 2 instances of
svchost.exe. Why MS decides to split them up the way they do, I'll never
know.

Regards,

DanS
 
Thanks. That's a lot of useful info. there,
much of which I didn't know. I wasn't aware
that there was a way to see exactly what
svchost is hosting.
AVG7 Alert Manager AVG
AVG Update Service AVG
COM+ Event System
DNS Client
Error Reporting Service
Event Log
Help & Support
IPSEC Services
Logical Disk Manager
Machine Debug Manager
PDAgent PerfectDisk v8.x
PDEngine PerfectDisk v8.x
Plug & Play
Print Spooler
Remote Procedure Call
Security Accounts Manager
Server
Shell Hardware Detection
System Even Notification
Terminal Services
Themes
TrueVector Net Monitor ZoneAlarm 4.x
Windows Audio
Windows Image Acquisition
Windows Management Interface
Windows UserMode Driver Framework
Workstation
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Running COM components between machines.
One of the many unnecessary security risks on
a standalone PC.
Help & Support is useless.
Indeed!

IPSEC services may not be needed for me.
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According to my research, IPSEC is "probably not necessary,
but used for VPN. May be necessary for high-speed connection
in some cases." DNS Client seems to be used by IPSEC,
but unnecessary otherwise. (I had been told by some that
it was needed for browser DNS queries, but that turned out
to be unrelated.)
Machine Debugger wuldn't be necessary if I wasn't using VS6.
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That's a strange one. I deleted that a long
time ago because it was trying to go online and
I couldn't see any point to it. Windows responded
by changing the "Debugger" line in my win.ini
file from mdm.exe to msdev.exe. I've never found
anything useful that MDM was doing, unless you
count filling up the Windows folder with hundreds of
useless files that all start with (if I remember correctly)
"ff".
Themes, IMO, are necessary. You're still in Win2K right ? If you are fine
with that style of window, the Theme service is not needed.
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I'm actually using Win98. But I figure it's time
to understand XP, since almost everyone else
has it. I do like the basic GUI, though. I especially
like the basic Start Menu that doesn't divide programs
up into "here's a few to keep you busy" and "click here
if you want to see the rest".
 
I'm actually using Win98. But I figure it's time
to understand XP, since almost everyone else
has it. I do like the basic GUI, though. I especially
like the basic Start Menu that doesn't divide programs
up into "here's a few to keep you busy" and "click here
if you want to see the rest".
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When I was using Explorer.exe for the shell I always set the start menu to
'classic' move, never cared for the XP Style Start Menu.

To show all menu items, in the Start Menu properties, un-check
'Personalized Menu's'. MS introduced this with Win2K (I think), and of
course, have it enabled by default.
 
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