Description:

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.

Used by User Account Protection to elevate applications to have Administrator privileges. Disabling this service will prevent tools like regedit from being able to make any changes. Re-enable this service by booting in safemode.

Recommended state:

• Manual

Default State:

• Manual

Proces name:

• svchost.exe -k netsvcs (Appinfo)

Supports:

• none

Depends:

• Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
• User Profile Service