Saturday, June 9, 2012

Tweaking Windows Services Alerter to Fast User Switching




Dstarr Blackbox



Alerter
Transmits alerts for display by Messenger Services. Spam gateway.
disable
App. Layer Gateway Service
Supports Internet Connection Sharing.  Obsolete.  We use routers now to put multiple computers on one Internet wire.
Man.
Application Management
Install applications off the LAN.  Corp IT might want this, but I don’t.
Man.
Ati Hot Key Poller
Net rumor says that is a hot key grabber from ATI who makes my video hardware. I never use hotkeys
Man.
ARSVC
Media Ctr always ready stuff. Arservice.exe. Keeps hardware alive even after you power it down.
Man.
automatic Updates
Visits MS website looking for Windows Patches
Man.
Background Intel. Xfer Service
Network files xfer in background for Winupdate
Man.
Boot Info. Negotiation Layer BINL
Install Windows over LAN
Nohave
Certificate Services
X.509 Certificates?
Nohave
ClipBook
Allows other computers to see the clipboard. I ought to make it “disabled”.
Man.
Cluster Service
?
Nohave
COM+ Event System
auto Distribution of Com Events
Man.
Com+ System Applications
Same as above
Man.
Computer Browser
Finds other computers to place into Network Neighhood.  Needed for 2 computer LAN?
Man.
Crypto Services
Cypto support to auto update, WinMediaPlay&PNP
Nohave
Dcom Server Process Launch
Required for RPC. Do not disable
Nohave
DHCP Client
Obtains dynamic IP address from ISP or router. Needed for all networking
auto
DHCP Server
Furnishes dynanic IP addresses to clients
Nohave
Distributed File System DFS
Network File shares
Nohave
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Keeps track of location of files shared over the network
Man.
Distributed Link Tracking Server
Provides information to clients to keep track of shared files/
Nohave
Distributed Transaction Coordinator
Supports Com+ Msg Queueing, SQL file sharing over the network
Man.
DNS Client
Needed to convert www.names into IP numbers
Man.
DNS Server
Converts Domain Names into IP addresses for clients
Nohave
Error Reporting Service
Report errors back to Microsoft in Redmond
Nohave
Event Log
Logs Windows errors to disk. System critical cannot be disabled
auto
Fast User Switch Compatability
Allows login as new user w/o reboot.  I wouldn’t use it even if I had it. 
Nohave

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