I dont get all the icons in the tray on start up.. reading some sites
they say that if you disable the sspd service that will solve that
problem...

but will this disabling also disable the upnp feature that some programs
need ?
they open ports automatically on the router....

I think this is good to not disable..

any opinions on the matter?

jim wrote:
| I dont get all the icons in the tray on start up.. reading some sites
| they say that if you disable the sspd service that will solve that
| problem...
|
| but will this disabling also disable the upnp feature that some
| programs need ?
| they open ports automatically on the router....
|
| I think this is good to not disable..
|
| any opinions on the matter?

Hi Jim,

I think you're right--does sound as though it will disable UPnP.
This from MS TechNet describing SSDP:

SSDP Discovery Service
Service Name: SSDPRSRV
Executable Name: svchost.exe -k LocalService
Log On As: LocalService
Description: Enables discovery of UPnP devices (Universal Plug
and
Play) on a home network.
This implements the SSDP Discovery Service (Simple Service
Discovery
Protocol) as a Windows service. The SSDP Discovery Service
manages
receipt of device presence announcements; updating its cache and
passing these notifications along to clients with outstanding
search
requests. The SSDP Discovery service also accepts registration
of
event callbacks from clients, turns these into subscription
requests
and monitors for event notifications; passing them along to the
registered callbacks. This service also provides hosted devices
with
periodic announcements.
By default, this service is Manual. If the Universal Plug and
Play
Device Host Service is started, the SSDP Discovery service will
start as well. When this service is stopped, the SSDP cache is
cleared, and new devices coming onto the network will not be
discovered, and new searches for devices can also not be made.
Available on: Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional.
Installed through: Default operating system installation
Startup type: Manual
Service status: Stopped
This service depends on the following system components: None
The following system components depend on this service:
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
IP Port Numbers used:
UDP: 1900

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jim wrote:
> I dont get all the icons in the tray on start up.. reading some sites
> they say that if you disable the sspd service that will solve that
> problem...
>
> but will this disabling also disable the upnp feature that some programs
> need ?
> they open ports automatically on the router....
>
> I think this is good to not disable..
>
> any opinions on the matter?
>
Not many programs need upnp I believe, so disabling it should not be a
big problem. I'm not sure why you think that the icons in the tray have
something to do with SSPD? Are they specific icons that you are having
trouble with?

If you do disable SSPD, you can see if it causes problems and switch it
on again if it does,

Cheers,

Cliff

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