svchost.exe

[Vargas]

if it's M$'s version you might need it to connect to your ISP to get your IP

[Al Kaholic]

Try using Google, and find out what services you can turn off safely.There
are numerous sites that will help you. Use your Microsoft Management Console (located in Administrative Tools) to stop services,and not
msconfig.

Good luck.

I think it's be to run->"services.msc" and modify any settings from there.

It's harder to shut down RPC when you do that, according to Black Viper.



If someone doesn't know wtf they are doing, that's a good thing.



And Canuk: leave it running, all right.

Have a look at this, if you want to know what is what when it comes to windows processes.

-> http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm#Services

Black Viper is an excellent site SnnY. Here is a link, as his site is down
for reasons unknown. (web archive) Black Viper.com