Comments on: Essential Processes needed to run Windows

By: Phaoloo

Phaoloo — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:19:46 +0000

Thank you for listing these files, just notice the svchost.exe and don’t know what it is before.

By: Meena

Meena — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:49:19 +0000

spoolsv.exe is not necessary it is never opened in my process explorer or task manager. if it is . then i close it and it doesn’t affect the computer

By: jamal

jamal — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:41:21 +0000

and spoolsv.exe is need to run explorer.exe

By: jamal

jamal — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:40:27 +0000

THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR THIS I HAVE STAYED UP TILL 2:30 TRYING TO FIND WAT I WAS MISSING FROM SYSTEM32 THANKYOU SO MUCH

By: KennyM

KennyM — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:06:07 +0000

BEWARE!Apparently there is a virus, AntiVirusPro 2009 . Anyway, this attached itself to ALL my svchost(S) and made iexplorer.exe . IT can also be deleted. And if anyone knows how to get rid of this rogue antivirus, i would like to be emailed at Personteen@Hotmail.com

By: vigge_sWe

vigge_sWe — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:47:11 +0000

spoolsv.exe – not required
taskmgr.exe – not required
explorer.exe – not required – just no taskbar or folders, there are replacements for the taskbar, ie rocketdock

By: Ted H.

Ted H. — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:29:20 +0000

What do you do when a Trojan and/or malware program(s) have cut you off from Task manager and regedit?

By: Andrew L.

Andrew L. — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:04:22 +0000

A couple of notes:

As has been mentioned, you can kill explorer.exe or replace it with a custom shell. (Killing explorer.exe will kill you desktop and start menu)

taskmgr.exe is not required. It’s the Task Manager; it only runs when you’re looking at the running processes. It’s not required at all.

spoolsv.exe (also as mentioned) can be killed if you don’t need to print anything.

By: Bryce W

Bryce W — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:49:54 +0000

Oooh, interesting resource Molotov, I’ll have to play around with those shells sometime.

By: molotov

molotov — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:31:35 +0000

explorer.exe is not required. It may be replaced with another shell, such as litestep or bb4win. Without explorer.exe you may still run programs from the command line.