On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:10:19 -0700 (PDT), YKhan wrote:

On Mar 26, 8:57*am, "David B." wrote:
As the description said, it will stop if it's not needed, is there some
reason why you think you need to have it running constantly?

Well, because it used to run constantly, and recently I started having
some random port-forwarding problems on some applications that use
UPNP. I have a UPNP diagnostic program called UPNPTest which I use to
troubleshoot UPNP problems, and it mentioned that this service was not
running.

So you are saying that this service isn't needed by applications that
use UPNP? What sort of things are considered UPNP devices? Would
routers be such?

Yousuf Khan

Routers that support uPnP would be such, if - as has been said - that function
is enabled at the router.

fwiw, I don't allow uPnP at my router for security reasons, preferring to
manually configure any required port-forwarding, and the uPnP service on each
of the many XP systems on the lan eventually stop after boot-up, which would
confirm what Jack has said.

Perhaps you've cooked yet another network appliance? ;-)

/daytripper