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The Fax service quite simply ‘enables faxing from your computer’. Though this would seem to be most useful for home users (businesses tend to have dedicated fax machines), it is not available in Vista Home Basic or Home Premium. The service enables both transmitting and receiving, as well as routing and archiving. If you search this site for fax you’ll find no fewer than a dozen KB-Links related to faxing in Vista, so at it’s best it has problems. Because the default setting is ‘manual’, there is little point to disabling this service.
Display Name:
Fax
Service Name:
Fax
Process Name:
fxssvc.exe
Description:
Enables you to send and receive faxes, utilizing fax resources available on this computer or on the network.
Path to Executable:
%windir%\system32\fxssvc.exe
Default Startup:
- Home Basic: N/A
- Home Premium: N/A
- Business: Manual
- Enterprise: Manual
- Ultimate: Manual
Log On As:
Network Service
Desktop Interaction:
No
Depends On:
- Plug and Play
- Print Spooler
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
- DCOM Server Process Launcher
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
- DCOM Server Process Launcher
- Telephony
- Plug and Play
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
- DCOM Server Process Launcher
Required For:
None
Memory:
N/A
CPU:
N/A
Do you know something about this service that I don't? Please leave a comment below so I, and everyone else reading this, can benefit from your knowledge!
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Comments
hasan
Jul 12, 2008 at 12:15 pm
First of all, when starting using windows vista, the fax is running well, after automatic updating vista, the fax can not run. I tried to solve this problem, but till now can not find the solution.What’s wrong with the updating?What can I do to make this fax function running again.
Koh Chun Seng
Jan 7, 2009 at 6:31 pm
I have the same problem. It used to be problem free, now it can’t fax even when I tried changing modem. It shows local fax has been disconnected even when printer ‘fax’ is online. RPC is always unavailable.
Terry
Apr 17, 2009 at 3:01 pm
This one really bugs me.
I used the XP Fax service a lot. ( No one ignores a fax or sends automated replies that ignore the issue!)
When I got my shiny new Vista Home machine – No fax. But it’s as obvious to me as is is to you, though sadly not the idiots in Microsoft, that this service is only of use to home users, who don’t usually have fax machines of their own!!
Dr Sree Hari babu
Sep 20, 2009 at 12:19 pm
It is good
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