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Title: WinXP Pro services
Post by: Mickey1992 on December 09, 2002, 10:29:42 AM

Skuzzy, thanks for the list of Win2000/XP services that the casual PC user can disable.

Can you provide a list of WinXP Pro services that are not necessary?  I disabled most of the one's in your sticky thread, but I still have about 25 that are enabled.  And this is after I just installed the OS.

Thanks,
Mickey

Title: WinXP Pro services
Post by: Dingbat on December 09, 2002, 11:24:34 AM

you know that if you hit f1 and do a search for the services it'll tell you what they do.  You could base your decision on that,  You probably won't need IPSEC enabled for one...

Title: WinXP Pro services
Post by: Skuzzy on December 09, 2002, 11:44:51 AM

I was deliberately conservative with the list of what to disable.  There are more items that can be disabled, but are very dependent on other things.

For instance, you can disable the DHCP program if you have a static IP address for your Internet connection.

I did not list IPSEC as there are times it is required within any given organization.

Other than that, you pretty much need to decide what you can live without and what you can live with.  I cannot make any further recomendations due to potential problems they could cause due to the very different way people use thier computers.

Title: WinXP Pro services
Post by: DAVENRINO on December 09, 2002, 11:49:26 AM

This site  has an excellent explanation of XP Services.  I disabled 20.  It is totally safe cause you can turn one back on if something stops working. http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm

Here is the table or you download the printable pdf version on the first link. http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

DJ229

Title: WinXP Pro services
Post by: fffreeze220 on December 11, 2002, 05:09:35 AM

U had any performance gain ?

Title: WinXP Pro services
Post by: DAVENRINO on December 11, 2002, 12:05:06 PM

Nothing I could see since I have a Gig of DDR 2100, but it can't hurt to turn of services that are never used.  Several of them I turned off were also potential security leaks.

Dave aka DJ229

Title: Disabling XP programs
Post by: Bear76 on February 05, 2003, 07:58:21 PM

Mickey,

Can I get that list from you of programs to disable in XP?:)

Title: WinXP Pro services
Post by: FOGOLD on February 06, 2003, 02:34:07 AM

Take a note of what you disable so you can turn it back on. Be careful. apparently things like "scheduled tasks" do stuff you don't think of,(can't remember what) and if like me your gaming machine is a network client be extra careful.