There isn’t much information available for this service. The generic description makes it seem important, but I’ve looked high and low and can’t even find a “Network and Dial-Up Connections” folder. On my machine this service was started, so something woke it from it’s Manual startup mode, but I’ve disabled the service, and have not notice any reduced functionality. If you use Internet Connection Sharing, you’ll need to leave this one alone, otherwise, this one should be safe to disable for most users.
- Home Basic: Manual
- Home Premium: Manual
- Business: Manual
- Enterprise: Manual
- Ultimate: Manual
- Network Store Interface Service
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
- DCOM Server Process Launcher
- Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)

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maxwell
Jul 7, 2008 at 7:28 pm
This service is needed when you want to manage the network connections. It’s needed, leave as is, or Vista will nag you to enable it back.
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