Black Viper

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Does anyone have the reg files that Black Viper had on his website to
shutdown certain WinXP services? His website has been down for quite a
while. These reg files are free.
 
I have the b.viper pdf that explains all about the services if you want it..
you can disable them from the administration tools.. why use reg files?
More than one PC?
 
Thanks for your help. I just wanted something faster than doing it
manually. Thank you again.
 
John Smith, 1/24/2006, 9:57:44 AM,


This list recommends disabling BITS service. You need BITS for
Windows Updates.
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No you don't. You need it for /automatic/ Windows updates. You can
still update manually without it.
 
Does anyone have the reg files that Black Viper had on his website to
shutdown certain WinXP services? His website has been down for quite a
while. These reg files are free.
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Black Viper's site was up and running again about a month ago. Now it seems
to be down again. Too bad.

Does MajorGeeks have a similar page for W2K?
 
Mike said:
No you don't. You need it for /automatic/ Windows updates. You can
still update manually without it.
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Mike,
What about peer to peer? Would disabling BITS affect that?
 
Does anyone have the reg files that Black Viper had on his website to
shutdown certain WinXP services? His website has been down for quite a
while. These reg files are free.
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FWIW...

For a couple of years, BlackViper's tweaks were a regular part of my
post-install routine. After doing my usual fixes (disabling graphic
ornaments, indexing, system restore; removing Windows Messenger, etc),
I'd use a backup copy of his site as reference to finish the job.

A couple times, however, I put it off for a few weeks and noticed that
there wasn't much improvement in speed or memory use after I finally got
around to it. So, I Googled a bit to see if my perception was off, and
this was one of the things I found:

<http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=34&threadid=1678445
&enterthread=y>

The results of his tests - that performance for some tasks were barely
improved and most were marginally degraded - buttressed my suspicions
that it just isn't worth the bother.

YMMV, of course.
 
CharlieDontSurf said:
For a couple of years, BlackViper's tweaks were a regular part of my
post-install routine. After doing my usual fixes (disabling graphic
ornaments, indexing, system restore; removing Windows Messenger, etc),
I'd use a backup copy of his site as reference to finish the job.

A couple times, however, I put it off for a few weeks and noticed that
there wasn't much improvement in speed or memory use after I finally got
around to it. So, I Googled a bit to see if my perception was off, and
this was one of the things I found:

<http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=34&threadid=1678445
&enterthread=y>

The results of his tests - that performance for some tasks were barely
improved and most were marginally degraded - buttressed my suspicions
that it just isn't worth the bother.

YMMV, of course.
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A good link, and I can appreciate this from a performance standpoint.
Most opotional services and tasks are hardly noticeable whether
started/running or not. But from a security standpoint:

1) If you use it, keep it (OS, software) updated.

2) If you don't use it, uninstall it (software), disable it (services,
tasks) or close it (ports).

YMMV, of course.

Ron :)
 
Mike said:
I don't do peer to peer.
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I don't either, but am considering getting a Bittorrent client in order
to download some non-copyrighted material.

Oh well, I guess I can try it both with and without. It's certainly easy
enough to enable and disable.

Thanks anyway.
 
The results of his tests - that performance for some tasks were barely
improved and most were marginally degraded - buttressed my suspicions
that it just isn't worth the bother.
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Still, I would do it from a security standpoint, and just because of
neatness. Why have a bunch of stuff running all the time that you never
use, and that possibly could be compromised? Plug "N" Play was considered
safe before someone found a way to exploit it.
 
Does anyone have the reg files that Black Viper had on his website to
shutdown certain WinXP services? His website has been down for quite a
while. These reg files are free.
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For these situations you can try the wayback machine at
www.archive.org

Very handy unless of course the original website blocked the robots

cd
===========================================================================
Chris
 
For these situations you can try the wayback machine at
www.archive.org
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Some of Black Viper's pages can be found there - unfortunately, many of the
ones I checked had only the front page, and links weren't archived.

His website says it's "under construction," which is different from what
you got last summer, when you were directed to one of those domain parking
sites. Hopefully, he's planning on bringing it back. The site that was
mirroring it is gone now, as well.

I always make it a practice to save pages that I find useful, so the W2K
services page is on my HD any time I need to use it.
 

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