Cryptographic Services - CryptSvc

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Below is a description of this Windows Vista service:

Provides four management services: Catalog Database Service, which confirms the signatures of Windows files and allows new programs to be installed; Protected Root Service, which adds and removes Trusted Root Certification Authority certificates from this computer; Automatic Root Certificate Update Service, which retrieves root certificates from Windows Update and enable scenarios such as SSL; and Key Service, which helps enroll this computer for certificates. If this service is stopped, these management services will not function properly. 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
Default setting in Windows Vista Home Premium is: Automatic
Default setting in Windows Vista Business is: Automatic
Default setting in Windows Vista Ultimate is: Automatic

# This Windows service logs on as:

Network Service

# The default path for this Windows service is:

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

# This Windows service depends on the following system components:

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) > DCOM Server Process Launcher

# The following services have a dependency on this service:

None

Marc Says:

The Cryptographic Service is basically there to confirm the signatures of Windows files and is also required for Windows Update. It is an essential security feature and should be left alone!