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S??hw0?ƒ wrote:

Just saying even after 4.5 years of operation (with SP3), I was
operating faster and with fewer problems, than after a clean install.
(and all drivers have been installed).

Check out BlackVipers website and turn off all the unnecessary
services.
The list is pretty comprehensive.


I have see BLackvipers site, there's another I use and used to link to
http://www.jasonn.com/turning_off_un..._on_windows_xp
It's changed, not as informative, and a log-in site now as well.

Try "BugMeNot"? to seeif theres been a login created for it?

BlackViper says to turn a service to manual, if it's needed it will
start, not for me.

You'll notice some lost funtionality and then yu get to play "guess whats
necessary".

It's either enabled (auto) or disabled, manual is a
disable switch on my system before the clean install and after - Try
this on the spooler service.

Print spoolers safe to leave to auto.

Oh ya, I'm very fimilar with which services don't need to be running.

^_^

One of the very first things I do after an install of XP is to disable
the Themes service,

I likes it pretty though...

I get an automatic CPU increase (it's claimed 1/3
of the CPU cycles are used by the themes service (no reference)); DNS
client service cause I have a large HOSTS file, and quite a few other
services.

Hosts can slow down loading of pages in FF. I'd rather go with NoScript.

I have the Automatic updates service disabled, and I'm getting
automatic update install request, (latest install), I've never had the
WGA service installed on any OS, it's sure trying to get in now.

Thats easily killed from the services snap-in.

Avast
warns me when the update file is uploaded to my temp directory (I
don't have activeX installed) and I delete it. (Comodo firewall won't
stop microsoft incoming (built in trusted site?).

I dont use that one
Prolly a way to blacklst what you want tho...

I'm going back to zone alarm 5.5.094.

Heh.