Disabling QoS Packet Scheduler Bandwidth Limiting

[Sam]

I have a Dell Dimension 8200 computer with windows XP Pro. I have seen
various articles giving information about how to disable the QoS Packet
Scheduler Bandwidth Limiting function. Is this a recommended/beneficial
action to take? Thanks for any help, Sam.

 

[Testy]

No it is useless and incorrect.

Testy

I have a Dell Dimension 8200 computer with windows XP Pro. I have seen
various articles giving information about how to disable the QoS Packet
Scheduler Bandwidth Limiting function. Is this a recommended/beneficial
action to take? Thanks for any help, Sam.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a Dell Dimension 8200 computer with windows XP Pro. I have seen
various articles giving information about how to disable the QoS Packet
Scheduler Bandwidth Limiting function. Is this a recommended/beneficial
action to take?

It is hyped by people who do not understand what it does. It does *not*
as suggested lockout part of the bandwidth for its own purposes. What
it does, *if* you are running a program that can use it, is guarantee
that program gets a basic bandwidth. There are not many such programs
and you are probably not using one. In which case QoS is doing nothing
- you might as well disable it, but really the only effect will be to
save the fairly small amount of memory needed to load it . Best thing
if wanting to avoid loading such a service is to set its Startup Type to
Manual - then if it *should* be needed it can still come into use.
Mine, set that way, does not Start