Lou said:
I am unsure of what services need to be running, manual or
automatic. I tried setting by recommendations in xp inside
out. But I wonder if all needed services are running. Hep
me please.
The ones that I think can usually safely be taken out of service on a
stand alone machine (or probably non-corporate LAN ) are below. But
start by setting them to Manual - if they then start up it is because
something needs them
Background Intelligent transfer (though it is used by Auto Update,
manual update works fine without)
Routing and remote access
Both of which seem implicated in heavy usage of CPU
SSDP Discovery and
U PnP
provided you don't need it for a UPnP router
Alerter (which is *not* needed for error alerts on the local machine)
Indexing (unless the use of context in searches is an actual benefit)
IMAPI CD Burning (if third party CD burning is implemented, or you don't
have a burner anyway)
Messenger (as used by the pop-up ads. Though of course NetBIOS should
be blocked in a firewall (Against BLAST and its friends too) , this is
doing no good in the sort of setups mentioned
QoS RSVP (not that it causes the trouble that street wisdom suggests -
but it doesn't do anything positive)
Anything else that has Started is probably needed - and if it has not
started there is no need to bother
