System Service details for 6cce13aec0fcf276418cc174d8633a7c

Registry Key

Browser

Display Name

Computer Browser

Description

Maintains an updated list of computers on the network and supplies this list to computers designated as browsers. If this service is stopped, this list will not be updated or maintained. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start. BlackViper.com adds this: This service is not required on a standalone system. In fact, even if you want to browse the network (workgroup or domain) or have mapped network shares as local hard drives, you can still do so. On a large network, one computer is designated the 'master' browser and another one is the 'backup' browser. All others just announce they are available every 12 minutes to take over duties if one of the other computers fail. No lag time is discernable if this service remains disabled on all but one computer. Honestly, I do not even believe one needs to be running. You could, just in case, but it sure does not need to be running on all computers, all of the time.

Image Path

%SystemRoot%\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs

Image MD5 Hash

8F078AE4ED187AAABC0A305146DE6716

Object Name

LocalSystem