Re: Questions

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Dan

What harm are they doing?

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Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User


"Dan" <Dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I think the two entries are Winlogon Userinit and Winlogon Shell, well
> according to Winpatrol that's what they could be.
>
> The services are all Microsoft. I'll just enable them again and disable
> them
> in the Administrator Tools.
>
> "Sharon F" wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:11:02 -0700, Dan wrote:
>>
>> > Well, if I just installed Windows XP Home and had no other software in
>> > the
>> > startup list, what startup items would there be still? Could the two
>> > entries
>> > be system critical and encrypted the names so I wouldn't disable them?
>>
>> Mike, sometimes the OEM (original equipment manufacturer) provided
>> software
>> included in your XP, will add services and/or startup items. Even if you
>> leave those things out, there are still XP services that will only appear
>> if needed by that computer's configuration. In other words, it could be
>> important on your system and not needed on mine.
>>
>> For the msconfig question: The simplistic answer is to re-enable the
>> services in msconfig. Then disable them in Administrative Tools. That
>> gets
>> the record keeping sorted and accurate in both tools. However...
>>
>> Be careful, depending on what those services are - you may not want to
>> restart with them enabled. Not knowing what they are, I can't ignore the
>> possibility that these could be problem causing services that should not
>> be
>> allowed to run on the restart. Their presence may only cause errors but
>> there's a chance that enabling them could also cause the system not to
>> boot. This is why I suggested leaving things as they are as long as
>> everything is working okay.
>>
>> While disabling in msconfig should be considered a temporary
>> troubleshooting approach and Administrative Tools used for the actual
>> configuration steps, there's nothing wrong with leaving things as they
>> are
>> now.
>>
>> --
>> Sharon F
>> MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User
>>


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