Windows ME and Local Services and Components

[kmsdb]

Hi. I really hope someone has the answer. I swear there was a way of bringing up some sort of Administrative Tools in Windows ME similiar to XP in that I could disable the services, whether it was Terminal Services or Remote, etc. I could set it to manual or have it set to automatic. I saw one result returned from my searches where the guy said he had to search help for "component services" and then he found it because it was well hidden. I searched that way and didn't come up with anything. It's not in control panel and it's not in System Information. I can end processes by the task manager or by using Process Explorer but I more concerned with closing ports and not having services start that I don't want to have started, e.g. Internet Connection Sharing.

I am hoping someone has the answer. Thanks so much. %-)

 

[wolluf]

ME doesn't run services like XP - so your list doesn't actually exist! Task manager & Process Explorer are as good as you'll get to control what's running on ME. And msconfig for startup of course (or perhaps autoruns from

http://www.sysinternals.com,

which gives you more access/control).

(there is a 'run as service' startup parameter for apps, but its not the same as XP).

Ports - I'd expect you to control with your firewall?

 

[kmsdb]

I appreciate the information but I remember reading somewhere that even though it doesn't run services like XP, that there is a way of accessing the information by running something and I had executed it once but it was so long ago, I don't remember. I don't want to necessarily know which ones automatically boot up, but which ones are configured to manually start if needed, automatically start and which ones are disabled.

re: ports controlling with firewall. The firewall is good for controlling ports but if you don't need a port open and you don't need the service that would open the port, why even start the service? If the service is configured to open manually, as in, when something requests it, then it wouldn't open on start up, but the potential to open is there and these are the services I want to disable.

thank you for the link to sysinternals -- that's a great site. I love Process Explorer.

 

[wolluf]

Sorry, but you're wrong. There are not services 'configured' to start manually in ME - because ME doesn't actually support services in that way. I don't know what you ran previously, but the only built in software I can think of to do anything like that would be task scheduler. Everything else either starts when windows does/user logs on, or is started/stopped by the user.