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Services Utility: Network Connections Service | Display Name (?): | Network Connections | | Short Name (?): | Netman | | Executable (?): | netman.dll | | Library (?): | None. | | Depends On (?): | Remote Procedure Call (RPC) | | Supports (?): | Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) | | Description (?): | Manages objects in the Network and Dial-Up Connections folder, in which you can view both local area network and remote connections. | | OS (?): | 2000 Professional, XP Home/Professional, Vista Home/Business, 2000 Server, Server 2003, Vista Server | | Startup (?): | | Default | Home | Workstation | Server | Minimal | Tweaked | Automatic | | Automatic | Automatic | Automatic | Automatic | Automatic | Disabled | Automatic | |
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The network connections service provides dial-up access, XP firewall services, VPN access, Internet Connection Sharing abilities, the network connections folder and the network tray icons. This service isn't required for normal usage, and it isn't required by anything but those features. So if you're on a LAN connection (such as a cable modem) then you could disable this service. For dial-up connections, including VPN, DUN or PPPoE, you may be able to stop this service after it has started, but it's not worth it. However, for normal computer usage this service should be set to automatic. If the computer is not on a network then this service can safely be set to manual, or possibly to disabled. If you are using any of the above features then this will have to be running. |
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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. And be one traveler, long I stood. And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair. And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay. In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." -- Robert Frost: Road Not Taken (1962) |
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