Re: Windows XP Services and Descriptions

At 12:19 -0700 2004-07-21, Ford Chiang wrote:
>Yesterday at Micronet meeting there was mention of a desire for a web page
>that lists what windows services are safe to turn off. I found a page that
>describes what Windows services are on by default, what they do, and what
>their dependencies are. It also has a recommendations on what's probably
>safe to turn off.
>
>In addition to the web page, there's also a downloadable zipped PDF that
>contains all this information (64pages).
>
>http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm
>
>http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm
>
>
>If anyone has any options or some better links, please post. Maybe this
>can be included on the sns's best pratices site if people find it useful.

   Thanks, Ford!

   The following are examples of other lists that take a somewhat
different tack, and may thus be useful as supplements to the nifty
descriptions of standard Windows services, above. These lists seek
to help identify some of the plethora of tasks that any particular
Windows system may be running:

   "Task List Programs"
   ("including WinNT4/2000/XP/2003 Services")
   http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm

   "Startup Applications List"
   http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
   (A large listing of startup tasks, many of these malicious)

   There may well be other lists similar to these on the 'Net, as well ...

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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Received on Wed Jul 21 12:45:32 2004