Please don't ever disable the event log service - this code lives in services.exe, and can cause... interesting.... behavior with all sorts of things running as services. There's really no reason to disable this service that I can think of, either. Absolutley, I can't think of a single reason why you would want to disable this service either. It's nothing but handy. The above case was on Joe Schmoe's laptop and he apparently went hog wild attempting to speed up XP by disabling numerous services.