Secondary Logon

Windows Vista Service Details

Description:

Support for secondary logon. Needed for some applications that need to run under a secondary logon account. Postgres comes to mind. Think of it as Window's version of su, except in Windows, you usually run yourself as an administrator all the time anyway.


Service Description:

Enables starting processes under alternate credentials. If this service is stopped, this type of logon access will be unavailable.


Consequences of Stopping:

Programs utilizing secondary logon will fail to load. If you have security set high, and someone on a non-admin account wants to do something that requires admin privs, you will need to log them out and log in, instead of just using runas.
All services listed in 'Required For' will be unable to function


Depends on:

None


Required for:


None


Default Settings:
Home Basic:Automatic
Home Premium:Automatic
Business:Automatic
Ultimate:Automatic
Tweaked Settings:1
Safe:Automatic
Tweak:Manual
Minimal:Disabled
1: Use at your own risk. Check descriptions of terms here

Service Information

Service Name: seclogon
Process Name:svchost.exe
Memory Usage(MB)2:.
CPU Usage(%)3:
Running Type:
2: denotes typical memory usage. It may not be indicative of what usage you will see, but it should give you a rough idea. Make a comment below if you see otherwise.
3: denotes typical CPU usage when process is actually active. Many processes are not actively doing anything most of the time. Check running type for more details. All machines are different, so this number may not be indicative of what you will actually see.
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