Vista's Quality Windows Audio Video Experience Service

May 13th, 2008 · Leave a Comment · 1,268 views
Tags: Services

Services Most useful for those running Media Center, Quality Windows Audio Video Experience (qWave) is described by Microsoft as:
“qWave is a collection of QoS-related software modules that run on devices in the home network. qWave supports multiple A/V streams (real-time flows requiring QoS) and data streams (best-effort flows, such as e-mail) simultaneously over the home network, while providing a high-quality A/V user experience. qWave is targeted for home A/V scenarios and is disabled in other environments, such as an enterprise.”

Since it is set to start manually by default, it will only run when needed, so disabling it will offer little benefit.

Display Name:

Quality Windows Audio Video Experience

Service Name:

QWAVE

Process Name:

svchost.exe

Description:

Quality Windows Audio Video Experience (qWave) is a networking platform for Audio Video (AV) streaming applications on IP home networks. qWave enhances AV streaming performance and reliability by ensuring network quality-of-service (QoS) for AV applications. It provides mechanisms for admission control, run time monitoring and enforcement, application feedback, and traffic prioritization.

Path to Executable:

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

Default Startup:

Home Basic: Manual
Home Premium: Manual
Business: Manual
Enterprise: Manual
Ultimate: Manual

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

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