Vista's Distributed Transaction Coordinator Service

April 11th, 2007 · Leave a Comment · 1,827 views
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Services The Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MDTC) has been around for quite a while. It helps applications communicate with multiple data sources as part of one transaction, acting like a traffic cop to help each request get to the proper source. Two examples of applications that use MDTC are Microsoftâ€™s Personal Web Server, and Microsoft SQL Server. Odds are you don’t need this one, but because it is set to manual by default, you probably won’t see any benefit by disabling it.

Display Name:

Distributed Transaction Coordinator

Service Name:

MSDTC

Process Name:

msdtc.exe

Description:

Coordinates transactions that span multiple resource managers, such as databases, message queues, and file systems. If this service is stopped, these transactions will not occur. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

Path to Executable:

%windir%\system32\msdtc.exe

Default Startup:

Home Basic: Manual
Home Premium: Manual
Business: Manual
Enterprise: Manual
Ultimate: Manual

Log On As:

Network Service

Desktop Interaction:

Depends On:

Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
- DCOM Server Process Launcher
Security Accounts Manager
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
  - DCOM Server Process Launcher

Required For:

None

Memory:

N/A

CPU:

N/A

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