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[chimpy]

I was looking in my "services" of the task manager for something else (trying to see if there was a phone services as my event viewer got a error about not being able to phone ) and noticed these three services p2pimsvc,p2psvc,PNRPsvc which are not running but have stopped, I googled a bit and I think there ok and for MS P2P programs but as I do not use any P2P should I remove them?
Do they take up space thats not needed?
Or should I just leave them be as I might mess something up?

[chimpy]

Just bumping this to see if anyone knows.

[yardbird]

I'm not sure? but I know what what they are, I'd leave them, till you get a reply. Publisher is ms...

p2psvc: Peer Networking Grouping
PNRPsvc: Peer Name Resolution Protocol
EDIT: p2pimsvc service (Peer Networking Identity Manager)

[exile360]

With services, especially those that are built in to the OS such as these, it is generally best to leave them be. If they aren't running they aren't wasting any resources. If you really want to tweak things for performance, have a look at this, but be cautious and not too overzealous about killing services.

[chimpy]

Ah right thanks, well I think I better just leave them be then, I was going to close some things down to lighten the load on my computer but its probably best I read up more on it incase I delete important stuff

[yardbird]

better to leav it alone -- you can google these below, & see that the publisher is MS... cheers..
p2psvc: Peer Networking Grouping
PNRPsvc: Peer Name Resolution Protocol
p2pimsvc service (Peer Networking Identity Manager)