I have been reliably informed that it is possible to cause further instances of svchost on startup such that you can reduce the number of services run under a single executable instance by running them under a new one. I got SO close to getting this to work, by adding a new reg value called audiosrv under HKLM/Software/Microsoft/WindowsNT/svchost and a new reg key under the same that was called audiosrv and given identical properties to netsvcs. I then removed the AudioSrv entry from the netsvcs multi and added it to the newly created audiosrv multi After reboot I simply found that AudioSrv was not launched. Naively, I thought there was a chance that manually running svchost -k audiosrv might do the trick, but alas it did not. Could someone please enlighten me as to what I may have done wrong. I feel I am missing one vital link to cause the audiosrv key to be checked and implemented under a new svchost instance at boot time. Further information is available upon request (such as reg dumps etc)
