XP Services Utility

[Monroe]

Found this interesting Services Utility chart over the week-end ... maybe some will find it useful or confusing. I never saw it before and it may be new to a few others.

It really can be used for many operating systems ... takes a few minutes to figure it out. If you go to the bottom of the chart ... just click on "XP Home / Professional" or any OS you are interested in and the utility will filter all the others out.

Vernalex Tools: Services Utility

http://www.vernalex.com/tools/services/

Welcome to the Services Utility. This page contains most Windows services; their expected platforms, their default and desired startup types, and clicking on them gives you a very complete explanation of them. This utility contains a great amount of information for Windows services, and is able to be searched from the search box at the bottom. If you are unsure what services are or want more information on Windows services in general then please read my Windows Components guide on services. If you want to know the meaning of the columns and the color codings or if you want to know how to use the search box properly or for other explanations on how to use this page then please see the services legend / reference.

... after I posted this, I started thinking that I may have seen this web site after all sometime back. It doesn't look too familiar to me but in some ways it does ... anyway, maybe it will be new and helpful to someone else.

Edited February 3, 2014 by duffy98

[bphlpt]

I hadn't seen that site, so thanks for sharing. But I believe that the recognized reference for Windows services is Black Viper's site. An available tool that utilizes Black Viper's recommendations is SMART.

Cheers and Regards

Edited February 4, 2014 by bphlpt

[tomasz86]

I also haven't seen this website before. Thanks a lot for sharing!

I've always used the Black Viper's guidelines too but this one is kind of special as it covers all versions of Windows NT from NT 4.0 up to Vista in one big table instead of having separate pages for each of them. It's especially nice to see NT 4.0 listed here as it's not supported by Black Viper at all.

Edited February 4, 2014 by tomasz86

[jaclaz]

Yep , it is a nice resource .

The good guy(s) at vernalex.com are known (or re-known) for their sysprepping helper tool spdrvscn:

http://www.vernalex.com/tools/spdrvscn/index.shtml

@tomasz86

OT but non much, and JFYI, Nirsoft has a very nice database of dll's, for XP, 7 and 8:

http://xpdll.nirsoft.net/

http://www.win7dll.info/

http://www.nirsoft.net/dll_information/windows8/index.html

The approach I used here:

http://reboot.pro/topic/3717-xpsp1-with-full-commandline-and-ntfs-below-10-mb/?p=154017

may be of use for some of your Win2K tweaking/updating .

jaclaz

[Andromeda43]

I'm another Black Viper fan.

For anyone who installs or does Tune-Ups on multiple PC's, the info from Black Viper can be formulated into a batch file, so that unneeded services can be either disabled or put into Manual mode, in just a few seconds. That also eliminates possible errors in resetting selected Services.

Some Self-Proclaimed Experts, will swear that shutting down unneeded services does nothing to improve performance.

I leave that up to you. Eh?

Just in the chance that turning off things you don't need, will indeed improve performance, I do it anyway.

It doesn't seem to hurt anything.

Happy Computing!

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