WindowsXPert wrote:

> Remember that, in NT terms, a "device" is not a printer, a scanner, a
> monitor, or some peripheral component. The term is figurative and refers
> instead to a service. (Windows95/98/ME spoke to actual devices, WindowsNT
> speaks to services called "devices.")

Well, that is certainly news to me, a device is a service and a service
is a device! Imagine the things we learn reading these help groups!


> What's actually calling the "device" could be some residual code left behind
> by an uncircumspect uninstaller; a start-up item; a load line; a statement in
> the HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run registry sub-key...
> there is a small handful of possibilities.

While it is true that some services, er.. I mean "devices"... er no, I
mean services, can be started by an item in the above mentioned key,
services set to start at boot time are started by the Service Control
Manager and the instructions as to which services to start is for most
parts obtained from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es

John