Windows XP XP calling Home?

[murdoch]

Just read TriplexDreads thread in Crunchers Corner about stopping Microsoft spying on you by turning off through admin tools/services: background intelligent transfer service, remote registry & messenger.

Does doing this harm your pc in anyway or does it just stop MS spying on you?

 

[TriplexDread]

It cant harm yo uthat I know of. Had mine off for years

However is may raise a few eyebrows in the community

 

[muckshifter]

MS does not "spy" on you ...

The Messenger Service never did "phone home" but was exploited as a feed for pop-ups by some nasties writers.

Lets not get confused with the Messenger Service and MSN Messenger ... The Messenger Service is automatically turned off with the install of XPs SP2

 

[TriplexDread]

Yeah thanks for mentioning that about the Messenger thing Mucks I forgot
Same as the Remote registry. That was full of exploits aswell.

You see the reason I disable stuff like that is purely a compatability problem.
Whenever I did auto updates from MS my system continuelly came to a halt. Slowed right down it was pitifull!

So now if I do a update I only allow what I want through not the whole kit

Should have been more specific sorry