Services question?

[luffy]

Hi, my friend just reinstall the OS XP SP3 pro for me. I see some processes running: RaUI.exe, alg.exe, mmc.exe, Atievxx.exe, lsass.exe, winlogon.exe, csrss.exe, smss.exe
If you have time, can you tell me what services is safe to disable?
Thanks.

[Black Viper]

Actually, with my Service Pack 3 configurations, I do not have the actual process listed on the table and swapped it out with the registry name due to popular request. I would like to include it again, but the table is already way to wide and have not found a solution to collapsing columns to have my readers hide what columns they do not need.
Another reason is because svchost.exe is used in so many services that it is almost pointless to list them anyway.

You can use the archived table as a quick reference here (most are still valid for SP3):
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/Archive/servicecfg.htm

Or use my search page and type in the executable and google will offer up individual services pages on my site that use them:
http://www.blackviper.com/Admin/searchsite.htm

In short, RaUI.exe and Atievxx.exe are not "default" Windows services. The ATI one is probably used for your graphics card (system tray icon, etc).

You cannot stop mmc.exe )Microsoft Management Console) as that is the process that is used to look at the services using services.msc.

Winlogon.exe is also used as a "login" process and cannot be stopped.

As for lsass.exe, csrss.exe, it depends.

smss.exe is listed on my strange services page:
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/strangeservice.htm
and also cannot be stopped.

[luffy]

Thank you.