Understanding and Tweaking Windows XP Services
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 06/22/2006 05:45 PM [ Print | 4 comment(s) ] · 1667 views
Beginners Guides: Learn to use the 'Services' young Jedi, they are powerful and control much of WindowsXP. Without mastering the 'Services', you'll be forced to run programs in the system tray for all eternity?
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MB Member Posts: 26 Joined: 2004-05-21 |
#64867 Posted on: 06/22/2006 08:30 PM
I agree 100%. Service tweaking saves a lot of memory and other resources. There are A LOT of services running that you actually never need (depending on what kind of computer you have - gaming, working, networking, multimedia, etc). It also stays cleaner for a long time. |
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Nemo Unregistered |
#64872 Posted on: 06/23/2006 09:57 AM
Even worse is the new trend for software houses to create everything as services now. e.g you can't simply have a defragger that starts when you want to use it and then shuts down when you have finished..... no you have to have 14 different services to do the same job, all running 24/7 for no apparent reason. I personally tend to steer clear of software that uses un-necessary services. ADOBE CS2 is a bad one. Yet CS1 is OK. |
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TSThomas Junior Member Posts: 2 Joined: 2003-05-10 |
#64873 Posted on: 06/23/2006 02:00 PM
Whatever happened to Blackvipers site? That had the best info of the sites that covered Windows Services. |
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Mertsch Moderator Posts: 3014 Joined: 2002-08-22 |
#64875 Posted on: 06/25/2006 11:04 AM
There once was an article which did analyse the real performance result of service tweaking and there was absolutely no improvement but I agree that really useless services whould be disabled ... but in case where your are not 100% sure ... leave it default |
