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Here’s one you definitely shouldn’t disable, and Vista doesn’t give you the ability to do so through Services.msc. Plug and Play (PnP) automatically discovers hardware attached to your computer, and helps make it operable. This shouldn’t be confused with UPnP, which is used to connect to devices via TCP over a network.
Display Name:
Plug and Play
Service Name:
PlugPlay
Process Name:
svchost.exe
Description:
Enables a computer to recognize and adapt to hardware changes with little or no user input. Stopping or disabling this service will result in system instability.
Path to Executable:
%windir%\system32\svchost.exe -k DcomLaunch
Default Startup:
- Home Basic: Automatic
- Home Premium: Automatic
- Business: Automatic
- Enterprise: Automatic
- Ultimate: Automatic
Log On As:
Local System Account
Desktop Interaction:
No
Depends On:
None
Required For:
- Fax
- Smart Card
- Tablet PC Input Service
- Telephony
- Fax
- Remote Access Auto Connection Manager
- Remote Access Connection Manager
- Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
- Remote Access Auto Connection Manager
- Routing and Remote Access
- Virtual Disk
- Windows Audio Endpoint Builder
- Windows Audio
- Windows Driver Foundation - User-mode Driver framework
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
db
Jan 22, 2008 at 5:47 am
svchost.exe
I get 3 or 4 of these in task manager / processes constantly
Joe
Jan 22, 2008 at 9:34 am
If you browse through the services, you’ll see that many of them run under svchost.
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