Task Manager Question

Qui-Gon John · Post by **Qui-Gon John** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 3:35 pm

Last weekend I was helping someone how had the svchost.exe virus and I would go into tm and stop the service, I could distinguish the correct instance of svchost because most list SYSTEM or LOCAL SERVICE as the User Name running it, but this one listed OWNER.

So I was looking in my tm and found that the only process that lists a User Name is System Idle Process, which shows as SYSTEM. The rest are blank, no user name shown. Why would that be? Both computers were running XP Home.

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 2:37 pm

Qui-Gon John wrote: Last weekend I was helping someone how had the svchost.exe virus and I would go into tm and stop the service, I could distinguish the correct instance of svchost because most list SYSTEM or LOCAL SERVICE as the User Name running it, but this one listed OWNER.

So I was looking in my tm and found that the only process that lists a User Name is System Idle Process, which shows as SYSTEM. The rest are blank, no user name shown. Why would that be? Both computers were running XP Home.

You have disabled terminal services... Enable it and they will reappear, if you so choose...

PS, you missed your birthday thread in gen discussion forum...

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 2:39 pm

I found a link...
http://www.winxptutor.com/tmuserblank.htm

Qui-Gon John · Post by **Qui-Gon John** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 3:10 pm

Thanks, didn't realize there was a birthday thread.

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 4:01 pm

You're welcome!

Did that solve your TM problem?

Qui-Gon John · Post by **Qui-Gon John** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 4:13 pm

Yes, but now, if I recall correctly, I think I disabled TS after reading an article on services not really needed on a home computer.

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 5:16 pm

Qui-Gon John wrote:Yes, but now, if I recall correctly, I think I disabled TS after reading an article on services not really needed on a home computer.

You don't need terminal services running. But if you have multiple accounts then you need terminal service IF you want to use Fast User Switching. But if term serv is not running you can still have multiple accounts, you will just have to use logoff-logon.