What are Vista essential services

As a former data protection professional, I have always lived by th
addage that the first thing you want to do to secure a system is to tur
off all non-essential services. Msft has always been famous for no
giving very good descriptions of their services. Phrases like "require
for system to function" are common

Can anyone provide a realistic list of Vista services and what the
actually do, so a user can determine if they are needed for the type o
operation they are doing

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"DavidOsburn" <> wrote in message news:...

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

DavidOsburn wrote:
> 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?
>
>
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.