Services

• Glossary of Windows 2000 Services
  This reference article summarizes all of the approximately 100 services in the Windows® 2000 Server family of operating systems, presenting them in alphabetical order. It provides general information on how each service is related to functioning of the operating system and describes the major effects of disabling each service.
  http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/howitworks/management/w2kservices.asp
  
  
• BlackViper
  Includes complete explanations of each service and advice on which services you can safely disable, for Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
  http://www.blackviper.com/

• Access Violation in Remote Procedure Call Server Service (Svchost.exe)
  An access violation occurs in the Remote Procedure Call Server Service (RPCSS, or Svchost.exe).
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305554
  
  
• Memory Leak in Svchost.exe
  You may encounter a memory leak in the Remote Procedure Call Server Service (RPCSS, or Svchost.exe). RPCSS makes synchronous calls to track object identifiers (OIDs) for clients as part of the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) pinging mechanism. During this process, RPCSS acquires a handle and memory, which are not released if these clients are not pumping window messages efficiently. This causes a handle and memory resource leak in the Svchost.exe process.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309615
  
  
• "Access Violation" Error Message in Svchost.exe When a Wireless Client Is Being Authenticated
  When you are trying to authenticate a wireless client, you may receive an "access violation" error message in Svchost.exe. This means that the Svchost.exe process terminates. (Svchost.exe runs the Remote Access Connection Manager service.) This problem may occur when the following conditions are true:
  • You are operating in an 802.11b standard wireless local area network (LAN).
  • You supply only the user ID and the password for authentication, without the domain name.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823050
  
  
• Additional Svchost Errors
  Search Microsoft Knowledge Base for articles on Svchost
  http://support.microsoft.com
  
  

• A description of Svchost.exe in Windows XP
  The Svchost.exe file is located in the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder. At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services part of the registry to construct a list of services that it must load. Multiple instances of Svchost.exe can run at the same time. Each Svchost.exe session can contain a grouping of services. Therefore, separate services can run, depending on how and where Svchost.exe is started. This grouping of services permits better control and easier debugging.
  http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314056
  
  
• Description of Svchost.exe in Windows 2000
  Svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that are run from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). The Svchost.exe file is located in the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder. At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services portion of the registry to construct a list of services that it needs to load. There can be multiple instances of Svchost.exe running at the same time. Each Svchost.exe session can contain a grouping of services, so that separate services can be run depending on how and where Svchost.exe is started. This allows for better control and debugging.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;250320

• Process Explorer.
  will show you more detailed information about each task running including their associated files and registry keys. This is a lot more useful than using the task manager to identify possible Services that may still be active. http://