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Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X by kimixa on Thursday October 31, 2024 @03:34PM (#42010599)
From what I remember a single svchost.exe process instance could be handing multiple "services" - you could see the mapping of service to PID in the Services, and there wasn't a 1:1 relationship.

So did you actually know what services were running based on the processes to support the belief that "there were no other processes acting in the background"?

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Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X by tetris11 on Thursday October 31, 2024 @04:01PM (#42010887)
But they were signed windows services, I didn't have to worry about any nefarious processes coming from the OS itself (at least, not back then...)
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Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X by andrewshadura on Friday November 01, 2024 @02:50AM (#42014605)
There was no signing at that time.
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