Vista's Function Discovery Resource Publication Service

April 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment · 12,885 views
Tags: Services

Services There’s not a lot of info available on the Function Discovery Resource Publication service. Based on it’s name and description, it is the broadcast side of the Function Discovery Provider Host; It advertises shared resources like disks, printers, scanners, etc. If you aren’t networked to other computers, then their should be no need for this, and you can safely disable the service.

Display Name:

Function Discovery Resource Publication

Service Name:

FDResPub

Process Name:

svchost.exe

Description:

Publishes this computer and resources attached to this computer so they can be discovered over the network. If this service is stopped, network resources will no longer be published and they will not be discovered by other computers on the network.

Path to Executable:

%windir%\system32\svchost.exe -k LocalService

Default Startup:

Home Basic: Automatic
Home Premium: Automatic
Business: Automatic
Enterprise: Automatic
Ultimate: Automatic

Log On As:

Local Service

Desktop Interaction:

Depends On:

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!