The Alerter service is a Microsoft Windows service which is used to send administrative alerts. It alerts users about security, access, and user session problems. Alert messages are sent from a server to a client computer, and the Messenger service must be running on the client computer for the user to receive alert messages.
The service differs from Messenger service that it is mainly use for server application, such as performance monitor, to send alert message; where Messenger service is use for client-to-client communications.
This service becomes disabled by default in Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1, and is no longer supported in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
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