XP help?
 

SVCHOST.EXE

wtf is it and why do i have so many open???

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For every value in the registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\hahahahahaha s NT\CurrentVersion\Svchost

...you will have 1 svchost.exe process. A process can be 1 or more individual services that are grouped together.

The purpose is to load DLL libraries that contain service processes. (Rpc, ect..)

:1orglaugh

well put

Seriously I don't have any of that bullshit on my mac, the fucking thing just works.

You actually do. Do a ps -aux in a shell sometime. OS X is a microkernel... which means that it has a minimal kernel (the memory management and scheduling part) and the drivers and everything are loaded as processes. That way... if your sound card driver fucks up... it takes down a process that can be respawned instead of taking down the whole kernel space.

That and a lot of hippy pot smoking and shrooming in Cali are the reason your apple "just works."

I meant I don't have to deal with it. Yes it's there behind the pretty interface but as a user you don't really have to deal with it at all. Unless you feel like opening up a terminal and fucking around.

Fair enough... although OS X's power is in it's BSD core. In 1 chained command I can edit a video, make thumbs of the video, hahahahahaha all those thumbs and place them in a gallery template.

How many steps is it for you w.indows people?

ive got many open at once too.. annoying