Hey all,
Just read that svchost explained article over at i am not a geek, followed it's instructions and created a tasklist of everything running under my schost's.
Is there anything i can get rid of, would like as few items running as possible. oh that "Messenger" iteam running under the second svchost, isn't MSN Messenger is it? if it is then, PLEASE tell me how to turn it off/kill it
here it is:
Image Name____________PID Services
System Idle Process........0 N/A
System.........................4 N/A
smss.exe.......................692 N/A
csrss.exe......................740 N/A
winlogon.exe.................764 N/A
services.exe..................808 Eventlog, PlugPlay
lsass.exe......................820 PolicyAgent, ProtectedStorage, SamSs
ati2evxx.exe.................968 Ati HotKey Poller
svchost.exe.................1004 RpcSs
svchost.exe.................1056 AudioSrv, BITS, Browser, CryptSvc, Dhcp,
EventSystem, FastUserSwitchingCompatibility,
helpsvc, lanmanserver, lanmanworkstation,
Messenger, Netman, Nla, RasMan, Schedule,
seclogon, SENS, ShellHWDetection, srservice,
TapiSrv, TermService, Themes, TrkWks,
uploadmgr, W32Time, winmgmt, wuauserv, WZCSVC
svchost.exe................1164 Dnscache
svchost.exe................1188 LmHosts, SSDPSRV, WebClient
spoolsv.exe................1392 Spooler
ati2evxx.exe...............1652 N/A
explorer.exe................1704 N/A
CTHELPER.EXE............1788 N/A
avgcc32.exe...............1820 N/A
zlclient.exe..................1828 N/A
a2guard.exe.................1844 N/A
avgserv.exe.................160 AvgServ
svchost.exe..................260 stisvc
vsmon.exe....................320 vsmon
Maxthon.exe.................1772 N/A
cmd.exe.......................292 N/A
tasklist.exe..................456 N/A
wmiprvse.exe...............1696 N/A
Cheers, Dave.