Application Information - Appinfo

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Below is a description of this Windows Vista service:

Facilitates the running of interactive applications with additional administrative privileges. If this service is stopped, users will be unable to launch applications with the additional administrative privileges they may require to perform desired user tasks.

# Default Settings:

Default setting in Windows Vista Home Basic is: Manual
Default setting in Windows Vista Home Premium is: Manual
Default setting in Windows Vista Business is: Manual
Default setting in Windows Vista Ultimate is: Manual

# This Windows service logs on as:

Local System

# The default path for this Windows service is:

%systemroot%\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs

# This Windows service depends on the following system components:

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) > DCOM Server Process Launcher

User Profile Service > Remote Procedure Call (RPC) > DCOM Server Process Launcher

# The following services have a dependency on this service:

None.

Marc Says:

This is an important system service of Windows Vista that facilitates starting installations that require elevated privileges to run. Provides the Consent user interface (UI) used by User Account Control (UAC) to prompt a user for administrator authorization.

Do NOT disable this service or you will run into issues trying to elevate permissions in Windows Vista!