Richard

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Richard Z wrote:
>> In general terms you will gain little from changing the default
>> settings of Services. A lot of system errors arise from users
>> changing the default StartUp type because they fail to appreciate
>> the complexity of the interdependent relationship between services.
>> You will find changing applications from loading on start up to
>> loading on demand a far more productive way to achieve better system
>> performance.
>
> I thought that was exactly what I was doing by changing a Service to
> Manual or Disabled from Automatic. It changes applications from
> loading on start up. Aren't we talking about the same thing? But I
> have read and experienced that some Services will not start on Manual
> when prodded. They need to be set to Automatic. Guess it's a trial
> and error thing.

You are still not understanding that Services and Applications are not
one and the same. A Service facitates communication between the
operating system and
Applications. Most but not all Services are provided by Microsoft as
part of the operating system. You have discovered Black Viper. Use the
settings you find there. It's not a trial and error thing!

>>> I thought that if something is set to automatic it should be running
>>> all the time. Yet I do remember in Services noting that is not
>>> always the case. As I check now only 1 is not running: Computer
>>> Browser. All others set to Automatic have started.
>>
>> Is your computer networked?
>
> Nope. The computer is usually connected to a router (for the hardware
> firewall) though.
>
>> Computer Browser "maintains an updated list of computers on the
>> network and supplies this list to computers designated as browsers.
>> If this service is stopped, this list will not be updated or
>> maintained. If this service is disabled, any services that
>> explicitly depend on it will fail to start.". Do you have any
>> services dependent on Computer Browser? My computer is a
>> Workstation, as many home computers are. Computer Browser is set to
>> Automatic and is not running. My computer is error free and works as
>> it should.
>
> I wonder why, if set on Automatic, it has not started in both mine
> and your situations? It's the only one of my "Automatic" Startup
> Types that has not started.

Simple. The service is not required!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ust9YBlEfY
Let the link run to the end!

Leave the setting as Automatic.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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