Re: Re:

There's one person in m.p.w.v.g that has a standard reply when asked
about the number of processes running. A poster will ask, 'is 56 running
processes too much ?' The've got 56 processes running right after a clean
boot. Now his standard response is...'It doesn't matter how many are
running, it depends on what they are'.

Not IMO, this XP box has 22 running processes directly after boot time.
Still a bit too much for my taste, but what can you do.

That's the second biggest showstopper for me with
XP. (After Product Activation. :) There are so many
interlinked services running. And the design is downright
looney. If RPC is shut down in NT it kills the whole system,
but there's no reason that RPC should even be installed
on a standalone PC. On my Win98 system I've got about
7 processes running, no WMI, no System Restore, no
System File Protection, and I've removed the key RPC file.
On XP I can stop S.P. and remove S.F.P., but that still
leaves me with dozens of things going on, some
of which seem to be spyware, some of which are vulnerable
online - like RPC.
I wouldn't dare go online with XP without first studying all
the services thoroughly, trimming them down, then finding
a good firewall that can stop svchost.exe from getting
through, acting as an alias for MS spyware or worse.


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