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*SIMPLE* process monitor - for peaks?
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote
| Agreed on all points! (Where in the US _are_ you?) Boston. | | Trouble is, if I asked you for a list of what I can turn off, you'd be | reluctant - as I would - to give one, as all our situations are | different. And also, if one goes around turning off low-level things | like services, Windows itself isn't as helpful in telling you what needs | turning back on when something doesn't work as it is when you turn of | something basic. Yes. That's the trouble. One needs to know the details. I turn off DHCP because it was the only service that I had running that needed to get through the firewall. By disabling that I can block svchost going out. But that means I need to use fixed IPs. Not a problem, but someone else deciding to just shut off DHCP will find their connection lost. I think the biggest issue is with remote operation. I shut down Server, Workstation and all remote functionality. But some people want to send a job to a remote printer. They probably need UPNP enabled. Or they want to use Remote Desktop from work. We can't have ideal security and ideal functionality at the same time. | https://www.jsware.net/jsware/xpfix.php5#who1 | | I seem to have downloaded it on 2015-9-26 (I'm presuming it hasn't | changed since then). Is it _safe_ to try under 7? And will I get much | benefit - you know by now my approximate level of competence, and how | much (or little) research I'm willing to do (has declined quite a bit in | recent months)? As you said, it's hard to judge someone else's needs. I made that utility just to put a lot of basic info in one place, for myself and others. The difference in 7 will be that the number of core services has increased. Is it safe? Don't disable RPC. No, I wouldn't say it's safe. It helps to get the lay of the land but it won't warn you if you shut off something you need. Nothing can do that. I discovered accidentally at one point that I needed DCOM Server Process Launcher to use WMI. That's nuts. It means that WMI won't work locally unless it's enabled for remote use. I would never enable DCOM. Worse, the services applet doesn't list DSPL as a dependency, which meant it took awhile to figure out the problem. That's trhe kind of complication that you [rightly, I think] fear. Since I use WMI occasionally, I enable both services. For a non-techie friend I'd probably disable both. |
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