Re: Required Startup Programs
- From: PK <PK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:00:01 -0700
Thanks, that did add one more Item. I guess I was looking at 2 different
things. What I listed were actually the minimum processes that need to be
running for Windows XP Pro to work propperly. You added one more.
The startup programs I was looking at were came up when I updated Spybot
Search and Destroy. There are a possible 36 programs that are in the startup
utility, but I only have 13 set up to run. More of them were checked when I
looked at the Spybot options, but I wasn't sure what was OK to "uncheck". I
thought maybe the was a list with the Startup Items or Commands that I could
work from.
--
Ferret Mom
"John John (MVP)" wrote:
PK wrote:.
Is there somewhere I can find a list of what type of programs / processes
that are necessary for startup for Windows XP Pro (2003)?
I had gotten a list quite awhile ago and I don't know if it's still current.
They were:
csrss.exe
explorer.exe
Isass.exe
services.exe
smss.exe
spoolsv.exe
svhost.exe
system
system idle process
winlogon.exe
Is the above list still current?
There are six critical system services, Windows XP needs these services
to start and run porperly. Trying to kill these critical services will
end the Windows session:
- Csrss.exe (Client/Server Runtime Server Subsystem)
- Lsass.exe (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service)
- Smss.exe (Session Manager Subsystem)
- RpcSs (Remote Procedure Call Server Service)*
- Winlogon.exe (Windows logon process)
- services.exe (Windows Service Controller)
* Runs inside one of the SVChost.exe. RpcSs is not critical in its own
right but hardly anything runs without it.
These are the 6 critical NT processes, without these 6 items things
don't work too well! Along with that the Task Manager would show:
- System (the kernel or kernel-mode threads)
- System Idle Process (Not a process or service but a single thread that
runs on each processor, its sole task is to account for processor idle
time or time spent doing nothing.)
There you have it, the minimum 8 items that will or should always show
in the Task Manager, add the Task Manager itself to the list and it will
give you 9 processes.
John
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