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Vista's Plug and Play Service

January 22nd, 2008 · 6 Comments · 7,081 views
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Services 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

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  • 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.

  • len ballard

    Sep 22, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    is there any way to temp disable pnp i have a sd card reader that needs a special driver to work with mapcreate but the widos sd driver takes over on it from what i have read if i can disable pnp install this device with its driver then turn pnp back on it will cork corectly

  • Michael

    Oct 21, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    Hi.,
    I’m getting a new PC with Vista.
    Are the following PnP able with Vista?

    PRINTER–HP DESKJET 3845
    SCANNER — HP SCANJET 3970

    Thank you.
    Michael
    LET ME KNOW IF THEY ARE PLUG N PLAY.

  • Amber

    Jul 30, 2009 at 9:38 am

    Vista apparently considers external disks/pendrives/etc. to be “in use” if an explorer window is open showing their files.
    Safe removal will fail unless the window is manually closed by the user.
    This wasn’t necessary under XP. Can this behaviour be changed?

  • Straydog

    Nov 1, 2009 at 12:40 am

    It seems that Vista and 7 were conceived to make trouble to their customers on purpose as a revenge for hardware manufacturers who honestly compose the best drivers for their products with about monthly updates, like Realtek, but refuse to pay Microsoft a royalty to have them “signed”. So, every time we reboot the good and appropriate drivers are replaced for the Microsoft shit and the hardware stops functioning. To make it worse, the PnP can’t be directly disabled without some knowledge. so people will complain stupidly about the manufactures that do not want to be exploited. Miocrosoft is making a real shit with this matter..

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