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Win XP's Universal Plug and Play Device Host service starts and thenstops immediately
It's the wierdest thing, I noticed today that my UPNPhost service is
no longer working on two of my XP machines. I noticed it on my desktop first, so I went to my laptop to compare, and found out that it's not working there either! I've checked through a number of webpages and none of them have had the solution for me yet. So I'll go through what I've already done. (1) The upnphost service was not working, so I tried to re-enable it in the services manager. I made sure that it's dependent services were also running (and set to automatic), SSDP and HTTP. The following message popped-up after the attempted startup: "The Universal Plug and Play Device Host service on local computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example, the Performance Logs and Alerts service." (2) I then went to see if the XP firewall was blocking the UPnP Framework. It wasn't, it's listed within its exceptions list. (3) Another article suggested that the problem might lie in the registry, it suggested that I go into regedit and make sure that the "Local Service" user account have full control permissions over the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\UPnP Device Host The permissions were already set properly. This was suggested in the following article: http://www.microsoft.com/communities...94d8d53014&p=1 (4) I then went and tried to uninstall and reinstall the UPNP services in Add/Remove Programs. This made no difference. (5) I got stumped, and came here for help. :-) Yousuf Khan |
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Win XP's Universal Plug and Play Device Host service starts and then stops immediately
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? -- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "YKhan" wrote in message ... It's the wierdest thing, I noticed today that my UPNPhost service is no longer working on two of my XP machines. I noticed it on my desktop first, so I went to my laptop to compare, and found out that it's not working there either! I've checked through a number of webpages and none of them have had the solution for me yet. So I'll go through what I've already done. (1) The upnphost service was not working, so I tried to re-enable it in the services manager. I made sure that it's dependent services were also running (and set to automatic), SSDP and HTTP. The following message popped-up after the attempted startup: "The Universal Plug and Play Device Host service on local computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example, the Performance Logs and Alerts service." (2) I then went to see if the XP firewall was blocking the UPnP Framework. It wasn't, it's listed within its exceptions list. (3) Another article suggested that the problem might lie in the registry, it suggested that I go into regedit and make sure that the "Local Service" user account have full control permissions over the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\UPnP Device Host The permissions were already set properly. This was suggested in the following article: http://www.microsoft.com/communities...94d8d53014&p=1 (4) I then went and tried to uninstall and reinstall the UPNP services in Add/Remove Programs. This made no difference. (5) I got stumped, and came here for help. :-) Yousuf Khan |
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Win XP's Universal Plug and Play Device Host service starts and then stops immediately
Hi
You probably have No UPnP Device on your Network, so it stops. Jack (MS, MVP-Networking) "YKhan" wrote in message ... It's the wierdest thing, I noticed today that my UPNPhost service is no longer working on two of my XP machines. I noticed it on my desktop first, so I went to my laptop to compare, and found out that it's not working there either! I've checked through a number of webpages and none of them have had the solution for me yet. So I'll go through what I've already done. (1) The upnphost service was not working, so I tried to re-enable it in the services manager. I made sure that it's dependent services were also running (and set to automatic), SSDP and HTTP. The following message popped-up after the attempted startup: "The Universal Plug and Play Device Host service on local computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example, the Performance Logs and Alerts service." (2) I then went to see if the XP firewall was blocking the UPnP Framework. It wasn't, it's listed within its exceptions list. (3) Another article suggested that the problem might lie in the registry, it suggested that I go into regedit and make sure that the "Local Service" user account have full control permissions over the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\UPnP Device Host The permissions were already set properly. This was suggested in the following article: http://www.microsoft.com/communities...94d8d53014&p=1 (4) I then went and tried to uninstall and reinstall the UPNP services in Add/Remove Programs. This made no difference. (5) I got stumped, and came here for help. :-) Yousuf Khan |
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Win XP's Universal Plug and Play Device Host service starts andthen stops immediately
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 |
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Win XP's Universal Plug and Play Device Host service starts and then stops immediately
Hi
Yeah, many Routers have UPnP capacity. Usually the Default is Off (it is considered a Risk to leave it On). If you need the UPnP, log to the Router and switch it On. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play Jack (MS, MVP-Networking) "YKhan" wrote in message ... 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 |
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Win XP's Universal Plug and Play Device Host service starts and then stops immediately
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 |
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Win XP's Universal Plug and Play Device Host service starts andthen stops immediately
daytripper wrote:
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? ;-) Actually, in this case, about a month or two back, I removed the router from my network completely after getting my gigabit switch. I replaced the router instead with the built-in routing functions of my Speedstream DSL modem. I did this to reduce the complexity of the network: less devices in the chain gives you less devices that screw up the chain. Also, the Speedstream seems to be a much more reliable device than a D-link router. I used to have to do heat-related reboots for the D-link router nearly every month, whereas the Speedstream could usually go 3 or 4 months continuously. The Speedstream is extremely non-configurable as a router though, with almost no features that you can setup, other than whether it will act as a router or just as a bridge to an external router. There isn't any way of specifying manual ports-forwarding. However, it did seem to support UPNP, because the only way to forward any ports at all was through UPNP. Yousuf Khan |
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