"Diesel" wrote

| Hmm.. I'm curious as to what you mean by break.
|
| I have a LAN here with more than five computers which act as various
| types of media content servers. I'm guessing? your configuration would
| cause the computers to no longer talk to each other?
|

I'm not experienced with networking, so I'm not
sure which things are required. People who don't
use a fixed IP will need DHCP to go online. So there's
that.

As for the network, I disable COM+ services,
Computer Browser, Server and Workstation,
Network DDE, Network Location Awareness,
Remote Access Connection Manager, Remote
Registry, SSDP/UPnP...
and pretty much anything else involved with
functionality between computers. I do that for
security and because I have no need to have
machines networked. I try to disable anything
that relates to communication with another
computer or incoming communication that's
not requested. So I also have DCOM ports blocked,
etc.
I've never tested which of these services is
critical for what things, since I try to block all of it,
but I'm assuming that if you run a home network
you'll have problems if you disable all network
services. (I listed the services I have enabled
on XP in a later post in this thread.)