Just to be on the safe side.......

[robby]

Anybody see anything unusual or unnecesary?

[ginipig]

the eyeball?!

Are you having problems with your comp?

[robby]

the eyeball?!

Are you having problems with your comp?

Nah, lol just checking if anyone saw some tasks running that might be not needed for general use.

[Necropolis]

Moved thread to software :)

[madmat]

nope, that looks about typical for XP.

[robby]

Thanks, sorry about the mis-post, necro.

[Necropolis]

Thanks, sorry about the mis-post, necro.

Hey, dont worry about it. Thats why they give us the permissions to do things like this (well that and stealth edit peoples posts ;) )

[Dexter]

Yep, looks good to me.

Dexter...

[mmonnin]

What is alg.exe and ZipToA.exe by chance. Might be nothing, I just dont recogize them.

[Geeky1]

I've always wondered why XP has like a bazillion copies of "svchost.exe" running at once. What the hell is it, and why are there so many of them?

[Jengo]

im with geeky on that one, svchost... reminds me of starcraft

im so addicted to that game... lol

:crazy:

[JB]

alg is ok...thats the built in firewall. ZipToA and NOPDB look suspect

[Sputnik]

service host, it runs all the fun stuff that keeps the computer running, like the network, the storage subsystem/memory management, and all the good stuff that hides under everything. run "%SystemRoot%\system32\services.msc /s" to see the services you're running. that's what this little program runs

so far as i can tell, each svchost.exe itteration runs different aspects of the low level system

[Straight_Man]

alg is ok...thats the built in firewall. ZipToA and NOPDB look suspect

NOPDB is valid.

Link:
http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/nopdb/
Basically, part of Norton Speed Disk

ZiptoA is valid if you have an Iomega Zip drive, but please get recent Iomegaware for Win2K or XP, as appropriate. Looks like versions 2.8 and earlier do not like Win2K even, versions 3.1+ possible for use.

John D.

[Dexter]

ZipToA is an Iomega Zip service. It is an ATAPI driver that allows the computer BIOS to see the Zip ATAPI drive as a floppy drive.


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