Do torrent downloads depend on any service?

[LeveL]

I stripped most stuff out with nLite, my HTTP downloads are OK,

they can go full speed, but when it comes to torrents, forget it, I

am lucky if I can get 1Kb/s. Yes the port is OK. Yes I have tried

Azureus and uTorrent. Yes its on torrents with plenty of active

seeds. Yes, I have still got my "Network Connections" service

started.

Is it because of some service missing like...

"Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)"

or something? Loads of pages I am finding say to disable the Windows Firewall

service and I am pretty sure in the past I have had that disabled too.

Just asking in case anyone knows off the top of their head what

service it is you should not remove?

[hulkviper]

This is what I remove, final size about 130MB and µTorrent works perfectly

Attach your Last session file

[LeveL]

Attach your Last session file

No need, here's the Windows Services I am removing and you're not removing:

COM+

DNS Client

Internet Authentication (IAS)

Network Location Awareness (NLA)

Network Provisioning

Protected Storage

Shell Services

System Event Notification (SENS)

Uninterruptible Power Supply

Universal Plug and Play Device Host

Windows Management Instrumentation

Windows Time

Its got to be something to do with one of those in red?

I wonder if I could try a full install of XP (in VMware) and try disabling

those ones in red, see if it affects the speeds?

BTW how are you guys saving an image like that with a list of removed stuff?

nLite has some option somewhere to do that?!

Edited March 8, 2007 by LeveL

[prx984]

Have you tried enabling/disabling encryption?

Torrents on my computer will not download because of my ISP. They're implementing traffic shaping. For this reason, I don't use torrents anymore

[LeveL]

Na my ISP is OK, its only since I am testing this version of XP

with these services removed...

DNS Client - Is this an old service, seldom used? Why should it affect torrents?

Internet Authentication (IAS) - Dial-Up and VPN? I am on Dial-Up but my HTTP

downloads are not affected so I can't see why torrents would be affected.

Network Location Awareness (NLA) - ???

Network Provisioning - To do with Wireless?

[hulkviper]

Attach your Last session file

No need, here's the Windows Services I am removing and you're not removing:

COM+

DNS Client

Internet Authentication (IAS)

Network Location Awareness (NLA)

Network Provisioning

Protected Storage

Shell Services

System Event Notification (SENS)

Uninterruptible Power Supply

Universal Plug and Play Device Host

Windows Management Instrumentation

Windows Time

Its got to be something to do with one of those in red?

I wonder if I could try a full install of XP (in VMware) and try disabling

those ones in red, see if it affects the speeds?

BTW how are you guys saving an image like that with a list of removed stuff?

nLite has some option somewhere to do that?!

With DNS Client disabled µTorrent works for me.

Internet Authentication (IAS)

Network Location Awareness (NLA)

Network Provisioning

Protected Storage

System Event Notification (SENS)

Uninterruptible Power Supply

Windows Time

these I have removed before on my old nLited installs.

µTorrent has always worked for me.

I have never removed Universal Plug and Play Device Host, COM+ and Windows Management Instrumentation, can be that......

the image I made with FastStone Capture

my settings:

Capture mode, Capture scrolling window.

Edited March 9, 2007 by hulkviper