What are Vista essential services

[Guest DavidOsburn]

As a former data protection professional, I have always lived by the

addage that the first thing you want to do to secure a system is to turn

off all non-essential services. Msft has always been famous for not

giving very good descriptions of their services. Phrases like "required

for system to function" are common.

 

Can anyone provide a realistic list of Vista services and what they

actually do, so a user can determine if they are needed for the type of

operation they are doing?

 

 

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DavidOsburn

 

DavidOsb

Retired M-Softie

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"DavidOsburn" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:b718d09837f05217c5b8fe6aadb6a1db@nntp-gateway.com...

 

As a former data protection professional, I have always lived by the

addage that the first thing you want to do to secure a system is to turn

off all non-essential services. Msft has always been famous for not

giving very good descriptions of their services. Phrases like "required

for system to function" are common.

 

Can anyone provide a realistic list of Vista services and what they

actually do, so a user can determine if they are needed for the type of

operation they are doing?

 

 

--

DavidOsburn

 

DavidOsb

Retired M-Softie

[Guest Dave T.]

DavidOsburn wrote:<span style="color:blue">

> As a former data protection professional, I have always lived by the

> addage that the first thing you want to do to secure a system is to turn

> off all non-essential services. Msft has always been famous for not

> giving very good descriptions of their services. Phrases like "required

> for system to function" are common.

>

> Can anyone provide a realistic list of Vista services and what they

> actually do, so a user can determine if they are needed for the type of

> operation they are doing?

>

> </span>

Try this, he has done a lot of work on this.

 

http://www.blackviper.com/

 

About half way down the page, a heading "windows services"

 

Dave T.