Vista's Network Store Interface Service

July 18th, 2007 · Leave a Comment · 2,136 views
Tags: Services

The Network Store Interface service is one of the more important services, necessary if you wish to connect to a network. The service keeps track of what network interfaces you have, stores routing information for each, and communicates this information with other services that require it. Disable this one, and the rest of the world disappears.

Display Name:

Network Store Interface

Service Name:

nsi

Process Name:

svchost.exe

Description:

This service delivers network notifications (e.g. interface addition/deleting etc) to user mode clients. Stopping this service will cause loss of network connectivity. If this service is disabled, any other services that explicitly depend on this service will fail to start.

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:

None

Required For:

DHCP Client
- WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service
IP Helper
Network Connections
- Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
Network Location Awareness
- Network List Service
  - SL UI Notification Service
Workstation
- Computer Browser
- Netlogon
- Terminal Services Configuration

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!