Distributed Transaction Coordinator

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Below is a description of this Windows XP service:

Distributed Transaction Coordinator

# Service Name:

MSDTC

# Service Description:

Coordinates transactions that span multiple resource managers, such as databases, message queues, and file systems. If this service is stopped, these transactions will not occur. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

# Default Settings:

Default setting in Windows XP Professional: Manual
Default setting in Windows XP Home: Manual


# This Windows service logs on as:

Network Service

# The default path for this Windows service is:

%systemroot%\system32\msdtc.exe

# This Windows service depends on the following system components:

Remote Procedure Call (RPC)

Security Accounts Manager > Remote Procedure Call (RPC)

# The following services have a dependency on this service:

Message Queuing > Message Queuing Triggers.

Marc Says:

Closely related to Distributed Link Tracking Client and offers new functionality introduced in Windows XP Service Pack 2.

In Windows XP SP2/SP3, the Distributed Transaction Coordinator service gives you more control over the network communication between computers.