xp services

[baritone]

what services i dont need to have running in xp

the person play games and lan games

pinter on another computer and burn movies and surf net

but xp uses too much memory

i cut back some but it still like taking half his memory

he has 512 right now

[albator]

listing service you need will be shorter.

I use :

Network connection

Plug and play

Remote Access Connection Manager

Remote Procedure Call (RPC)

Windows audio

WMI

and I set cryptograhic to manual. (needed to install direct X and other microsoft stuff and for windows updates)

All others dont exist( nlited) or are disabled.

Some services a needed depending if you want use a printer and depending on how you connect to internet.

If you want more perfomance you can use the classic windows look and disable all fancy graphic stuff.

Remove system restore (for total newbie) Clone you drive instead, remove indexing service ( if you cant find you doc own your pc, fix your brain ) . With that kind of nlited windows xp, it will very fast.

To learn more about each service go to http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm

If yout not sure about a particular service, I sugest to leave it on, until your learn more about it.

Edited January 19, 2006 by albator

[Takeshi]

I've said this before.

Trimming system services is not going to save a lot of RAM.

The most compelling reason to do so is for security.

By all means consult the guides but you have to decide what can be turned off for your own particular PC. Blindly following what other people say might (and often) lead to problems. And don't change anything without a backup or at least write down what you change.

[baritone]

ok thanks

and i been noticing that norton corps is been stilling almost 40 megs of ram so ill going to get a non ram stealer or one that dont use that much

ill tell him to get more ram maybe 1 gig more

my system has 2 gig so im not worried about ram