From: "Geo." 

"John Beckett"  wrote in message
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> I think that Rich's generic advice is very sound: Messing about with all
> this stuff is bound to lead to trouble.

Ok so? I mean I learn to fix computers by doing. A service that even the
administrator can't stop or disable, talk about a handy feature for a virus
writer so now I want to know how it's done.

> The correct procedure would be to set the Startup type to Disabled, then
> restart.

No you don't understand, ALL of the service properties are greyed out.

> On XP I would use services.msc or set registry:
>
> HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\
> Start = 4 (Disabled) - Don't start the driver on boot

I'll try the registry tonight, that's a good idea thanks.

Geo.

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