In Registry and i see WHAT?!?!

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

The only things I've installed on this PC are drivers for the GPU & Sound cards, Epic Game Launcher, CS:GO, Rising Storm, Steam, EVGA Precision, and Samsung Magician.


The only features on in the "Turn Windows Features on or off" are .net 3.5 and .net 4.6


I've googled the registry items I've seen that appear suspect and found nothing. Here are the LIST of multiple registry entries that I'm talking about.

Windows 10:

HKLM\Sytem\CurrentControlSet\Services\MessagingService

Under "MessagingService" there are 24 "MessagingService" entries with different extenstions e.g. MessagingService_2174c. Two of the entries have expandable trees. One of the key names under the tree is "TriggerInfo" with another expanding tree with a key name of "0" I have 4 other Keys in the same hive that have multiples of 24, OnceSyncSvc, PimIndexMaintenanceSvc, UnistoreSvc, and UserDataSvc. All with 24 keys and the same extensions. Does that make any sense to anyone?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Calm down. Unless you have an issue that links to those registry entries, you're borrowing trouble. Even on a 'bare' system, you'll have thousands and thousands of registry entries. All written by machine language geeks who think saving 8 bits on a description is 'elegant.'

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Calm down. Unless you have an issue that links to those registry entries, you're borrowing trouble. Even on a 'bare' system, you'll have thousands and thousands of registry entries. All written by machine language geeks who think saving 8 bits on a description is 'elegant.'

Thank you for that clinical suggestions but do you understand what those mean, and why they are there? My other windows 10 machine does not have multiples of 24 of the keys I mentioned. All I do is game on the machine with the suspect keys so it makes no sense why they would be there :hmm:

 

[Mushkins]

They're related to the native Windows Messaging app that comes baked into Windows 10. Nothing to worry about.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

They're related to the native Windows Messaging app that comes baked into Windows 10. Nothing to worry about.

It looks like it's been active though. I've never used anything other than to game on the machine.. weird

multiples of 24 for each...

 

[mikeymikec]

I've seen a weird situation a number of times on Win10 machines (ones that have been upgraded to Win10), event log entries about services that terminated unexpectedly, like the OP's "MessagingService_2174c" (the number is apparently random), but a whole string of different names on the start of the service name (something like 'userhostsync' for example, going on a vague memory here). The service names seem temporary as well because the names in the event log don't match up with the current service list. Has anyone else seen this?

 

[Mushkins]

It looks like it's been active though. I've never used anything other than to game on the machine.. weird

multiples of 24 for each...

The built in Skype client is also part of Messaging. You can check native app usage going back 30 days by opening Task Manager and checking the App History tab if you're really all that concerned about it. There's probably some floating reg keys and some minimal usage from any windows updates that may have activated the process briefly.

Really, it's nothing to worry about. If you go digging through the event logs and the registry looking for trouble where there is none you're going to worry yourself into an early grave.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Thanks for the replies. It's just weird and I'm curious about it.

 

[Kurt_F]

Calm down. Unless you have an issue that links to those registry entries, you're borrowing trouble. Even on a 'bare' system, you'll have thousands and thousands of registry entries. All written by machine language geeks who think saving 8 bits on a description is 'elegant.'

I discovered over 400 MessengerService_xxxxx's under my MessengerService service. When I found this post and read this reply, I laughed. And yes, the other 4 services you listed, BTRY, also had 400+ dups under them. Now my right fingers are muscle-sore from hitting the delete-enter sequence over 1,600 times to clear these out.

When I read you had 24 of them, I decided something was leaving garbage behind. I suspected it was from abnormal shutdowns, because I rebooted my machine about 400 times last week during an overclocking exercise.

After clearing all those ending in _xxxxx from my services key, and rebooting, I discovered that my system created 1 new duplicate under each of the 5 services. When I shut down/restart cleanly, there is still only 1, but it has a different postfix # in the name. To test the theory, I forced a BSOD, and rebooted to find 2 dups under each of the 5 services.

Conclusion: These will accumulate with BSOD's over the life of the OS. My cc cleaner ignored them. But like you, I hate garbage in my registry. Thanks for being curious, and thanks for all the replies.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Interesting. That might be it, but I'm still suspect about them though! haha 😀

Thanks for your reply and explaining your experience about it. Hopefully it will help others, too 🙂