PK said:
Is there somewhere I can find a list of what type of programs / processes
that are necessary for startup for Windows XP Pro (2003)?
I had gotten a list quite awhile ago and I don't know if it's still current.
They were:
csrss.exe
explorer.exe
Isass.exe
services.exe
smss.exe
spoolsv.exe
svhost.exe
system
system idle process
winlogon.exe
Is the above list still current?
There are six critical system services, Windows XP needs these services
to start and run porperly. Trying to kill these critical services will
end the Windows session:
- Csrss.exe (Client/Server Runtime Server Subsystem)
- Lsass.exe (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service)
- Smss.exe (Session Manager Subsystem)
- RpcSs (Remote Procedure Call Server Service)*
- Winlogon.exe (Windows logon process)
- services.exe (Windows Service Controller)
* Runs inside one of the SVChost.exe. RpcSs is not critical in its own
right but hardly anything runs without it.
These are the 6 critical NT processes, without these 6 items things
don't work too well! Along with that the Task Manager would show:
- System (the kernel or kernel-mode threads)
- System Idle Process (Not a process or service but a single thread that
runs on each processor, its sole task is to account for processor idle
time or time spent doing nothing.)
There you have it, the minimum 8 items that will or should always show
in the Task Manager, add the Task Manager itself to the list and it will
give you 9 processes.
John
