me too. If the Microsoft website explanation is indicative of the MOC books, I'm going to look for something else. Has anyone figured out what the svc in svchost stands for?

I currently have 5 svchost process' running on my xp machine, 4 of them I can temporarily delete, the funny thing is that when trying to delete them from taskmanager, they seem to jump around in the task manager window, eg; I delete one and another shows up 3 or 4 rows above or below where the last one was deleted. If I'm persistent, I can "catch up" to the rate that they are reintroducing themselves, but of course when I get to the rpc one, the system shuts down.

Does anyone know how to reduce this to simply the Remote Procedure Call, and not have the system resources burdened any further?

btw, that rpc sounds like a uninvited wake up call for my computer, is that what it is? I checked google and ms, (a lot of posts, but) not really a lot of info except that the system wont let you remove svchost for rpc.

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eeerr hmmpf.... there is something wrong in so many lvls that I dunno where to start...

lots of proggy can call svchost. another proggy is prolly utilizing it as you try to terminate it therefore it was *restarted*

svchost is consider a core system process. its not just for RPC.

point is... whatever you are doing, don't. shut down whatever proggy that's running on your system that is calling these processes, not the processes themselves.

RPC... leave it alone. its good for you. it faciliate network services. when you want something, there is gotta be a process of requesting info and something that listen and answer these calls, therefore RPC...

I am sure someone with a developer background can answer these in more detail...

add. search on google for *remote procedure calls *, not RPC. 2nd 3rd 4th and so on are all good links that provide more information than I care/need to know

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found a site http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/node33.html unfortunately, the level of understanding required to thoroughly digest this info is currently beyond me. I sort of understand the basic concept (I think) that my machine is supposed to trust that inquiries being made are of a legitimate and authorized fashion, and as such it will co-operate with remote info requests for the purpose of expediting functionality? Am I correct in assuming that this acts to remove the difficulties surrounding machines that speak different languages, which would be a good thing, but also increases the ease with which external manipulation of PC's can occur?

I'm thinking that, as svchost is an integral part of w2k and xp, that this is the right time and place to come to a basic understanding of it.

Oh, svc=servercall?

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