Services in Win2000/XP Pro

po0k

Could we somehonw put together a quciklist of services in 2k that the average power user doesn't need running
ie. Messenger etc.?
Or even an up-to-date synopsis of what each does?

spongebob

http://www.xp-antispy.org/ Free Utility.

will turn off the ones you REALLY don't need. List the balance in here then . Get a command line proggie from the MS site called tlist.exe and pipe the output to a tlist.txt file as in

tlist > tlist.txt

pashte that.

M

po0k

Will do

Might be later on tonight though, have to take apart the machine for a tutorial.

Capt'n Midnight

Don't forget ww.sysinternals.com - pstools
pslist & pskill & autoruns

another way to list (running) services
Net Start > Net-stop.bat

To stop them Notepad replace 4 spaces with NET STOP " and add another " at the end of the line.
then simply use REM (or a at the start of a line for services you don't want stopped.

Always stop a service - before you disable it - just in case it was really needed...

If you have ZoneAlarm - it should detect any thing trying to tunnel out..

po0k

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>tlist
-2 Idle.exe
8 System.exe
176 smss.exe
204 csrss.exe
224 winlogon.exe MM Notify Callback
252 services.exe
264 lsass.exe
452 svchost.exe
476 spoolsv.exe
512 avgserv.exe
528 svchost.exe
584 nvsvc32.exe NVSVCPMMWindowClass
728 WinMgmt.exe
760 mspmspsv.exe
868 Explorer.exe Program Manager
1080 Winampa.exe
1132 internat.exe
1144 Notification Window
1288 opera.exe Opera
608 outpost.exe trashmessagetarget
532 putty.exe frink.nuigalway.ie - PuTTY
1168 edonkey2000.exe MCI command handling window
1556 avgcc32.exe AVG Control Center - FREE Edition
908 cmd.exe C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe - tlist
1272 TLIST.exe
-2 _Total.exe

Creamy Goodness

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm


it's all you need man,

it breaks up what you need to have running and what you don't need running into groups like
SAFE,
Internet Gateway,
Gaming,
Super Tweak.

i done this to the gaming configuration and got the ram that's used on startup down to 70mb from 200mb

spongebob

This site Here gives you granular info on each process (300 are detailed) and on tweaking it which will also help decide if you need them running at all.

Disable the spooler service if you have no printer on the network, that can be a right hog at times in my experience.

M

SouperComputer

you can disable these unless you need them

messenger
telnet
smartcard
smartcard helper
QOS
TCP\IP Netbios helper
UPS
Runas
remote registry
task scheuduler
fax service
background intelligent transfer

thats all i can think of off the top of my head.

ill have a deep look tomorrow.

throw "windows 2000 tweaks" into google and see what it throws up

Ronan|Raven

I in a moment of hangover induced madness set all my servies to manual Only two services failed to start themselves and that was soon taken care of now I have the 2k install running with minimal unecessary services. *something will go wrong soon *

po0k

Yeah, I've those disabled Soupercomputer, and a few others.
Modifying the security Polices etc. is also interesting
Disabled remote shutdown etc. all sorts of handy holes closed.

Agnantium Firewall is also rather handy for the paranoia inclined

GUI

Microsoft have indept
documents detailing what each service does on 2k/xp/2k3 server ..

under technical articles at ur relevant microsoft os site
www.eu.microsoft.com/windowsxxx