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"Shane" wrote in message
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No confusion with Plug and Play, Shane.
When I disable UPnP, Spybot is telling me something about
Windows/System/.....exe., making it appear as something important.

Well, would want to know more, like what comes between the System/ and the
.exe!

ok, here it is:
"C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ssdpsrv.exe".
Hope that helps, Shane. Harry



I didn't allow the change for that reason, until I checked with you.

This isn't the machine you've lost connectivity on?

Mike mentioned something about a limit in this thread.
Should we start a new one?

I tried to reply to the part where Noel and Mike put me right about
UP'n'P's
current status, but got an error incorrectly-formed message ID.

Basically, start a new thread if you have a new issue.

Shane

"webster72n" wrote in message
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"Shane" wrote in message
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No confusion with Plug and Play, Shane.
When I disable UPnP, Spybot is telling me something about
Windows/System/.....exe., making it appear as something important.

Well, would want to know more, like what comes between the System/ and
the
.exe!

ok, here it is:
"C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ssdpsrv.exe".
Hope that helps, Shane. Harry



OK, now I reckon I understand. You must have real time monitoring of the
Startup Axis enabled in Spybot, as ssdpsrv.exe is the UPnP startup item.
When you disable UPnP, ssdpsrv.exe is removed from the Startup axis and
Spybot is warning you of that.

So what I say to that is, go ahead and disable UPnP. Tell Spybot it's okay
(I presume it has a button saying 'Allow this action', or the equivalent?).

If you lose something, eg your internet connection, as a consequence, the
likelihood is you need UPnP and should simply re-enable it. If it doesn't
seem to have any effect, though, leave it disabled.

btw what's with the multiple arrows, above? It does make it rather difficult
to find what's new in the post!


Shane

"Shane" wrote in message
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"webster72n" wrote in message
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"Shane" wrote in message
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No confusion with Plug and Play, Shane.
When I disable UPnP, Spybot is telling me something about
Windows/System/.....exe., making it appear as something important.

Well, would want to know more, like what comes between the System/ and
the
.exe!

ok, here it is:
"C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ssdpsrv.exe".
Hope that helps, Shane. Harry



OK, now I reckon I understand. You must have real time monitoring of the
Startup Axis enabled in Spybot, as ssdpsrv.exe is the UPnP startup item.
When you disable UPnP, ssdpsrv.exe is removed from the Startup axis and
Spybot is warning you of that.

So what I say to that is, go ahead and disable UPnP. Tell Spybot it's okay
(I presume it has a button saying 'Allow this action', or the
equivalent?).

If you lose something, eg your internet connection, as a consequence, the
likelihood is you need UPnP and should simply re-enable it. If it doesn't
seem to have any effect, though, leave it disabled.

I did disable it and promptly had this error message at startup:
"Windows Update:
An error occurred loading C\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\upnp.dll.
The file may not have been installed or it has been corrupted".
As a system file shouldn't it be there?
I didn't go as far as logging on to the internet.
Merely enabled it again.
What do you think?

btw what's with the multiple arrows, above? It does make it rather
difficult
to find what's new in the post!

It was supposed to make it easier!
Sorry about that, Shane.


Shane

Harry, we just hit the malformed message id problem again.

No confusion with Plug and Play, Shane.
When I disable UPnP, Spybot is telling me something about
Windows/System/.....exe., making it appear as something important.

Well, would want to know more, like what comes between the System/
and
the
.exe!

ok, here it is:
"C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ssdpsrv.exe".
Hope that helps, Shane. Harry



OK, now I reckon I understand. You must have real time monitoring of the
Startup Axis enabled in Spybot, as ssdpsrv.exe is the UPnP startup item.
When you disable UPnP, ssdpsrv.exe is removed from the Startup axis and
Spybot is warning you of that.

So what I say to that is, go ahead and disable UPnP. Tell Spybot it's
okay
(I presume it has a button saying 'Allow this action', or the
equivalent?).

If you lose something, eg your internet connection, as a consequence,
the
likelihood is you need UPnP and should simply re-enable it. If it
doesn't
seem to have any effect, though, leave it disabled.

I did disable it and promptly had this error message at startup:
"Windows Update:
An error occurred loading C\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\upnp.dll.
The file may not have been installed or it has been corrupted".

Presumably you have Automatic Updating turned on and it goes online at
Startup, but you require UPnP to go online. Your modem or router requires
it.

As a system file shouldn't it be there?

Short answer, it's not a system file if the system doesn't require it.
However, as this exercise is about trying to establish whether it is
required, one way to look at it would be that we've been in a limbo of not
knowing whether those files were system, or not. Well, now it looks to me
like they are, as I can't imagine any other reason upnp.dll would be
required for Windows Update.

I didn't go as far as logging on to the internet.
Merely enabled it again.
What do you think?


Sounds like you did the right thing, Harry.

btw what's with the multiple arrows, above? It does make it rather
difficult
to find what's new in the post!

It was supposed to make it easier!
Sorry about that, Shane.



vbg


Shane