Computer Browser - Browser

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Below is a description of this Windows Vista service:

Maintains an updated list of computers on the network and supplies this list to computers designated as browsers. If this service is stopped, this list will not be updated or maintained. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

# Default Settings:

Default setting in Windows Vista Home Basic is: Automatic (Not Started)
Default setting in Windows Vista Home Premium is: Automatic (Not Started)
Default setting in Windows Vista Business is: Automatic (Not Started)
Default setting in Windows Vista Ultimate is: Automatic (Not Started)

# 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:

Server > Security Accounts Manager > Remote Procedure Call (RPC) > DCOM Server Process Launcher

Server > srv > srv2 > srvnet

# The following services have a dependency on this service:

Workstation > Bowser

Workstation > Network Store Interface Service > NSI proxy service

Workstation > SMB 1.x MiniRedirector > SMB MiniRedirector Wrapper and Engine > Redirected Buffering Sub System

Workstation > SMB 2.0 MiniRedirector > SMB MiniRedirector Wrapper and Engine > Redirected Buffering Sub System > Mup

Marc Says:

The Computer Browser service basically takes a constant look around at your network to and tries to find information on any workgroups or domains, computers and other networked equipment that supports the NetBIOS protocol.

However this service is, by default, not automatically started and will fire up if and when needed.