services

[Stan]

What is the advantage of turning off unneeded services?

 

[Tom]

What is the advantage of turning off unneeded services?

Hvaing more system resources for your use (e.g. RAM)

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Ostensibly to speed up the boot, free up system resources, and not make the
system vulnerable to any exploits that target that service. Frankly, I don't
find disabling any default services to be of much benefit to the average
user.

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Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Stan]

Thanks men. So it's like disabling unneeded startup programs. Got it.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

What you have heard on this topic probably applies more to servers than
clients (desktops and laptops).

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Rick

Do you have the Indexing Service enabled?

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Gerry

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[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Most of the time, yes.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Rick

What impact does it have on your system performance? How does it benefit
you? In what circumstances do you turn it off?

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Regards.

Gerry

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[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Gerry,

What impact does it have on your system performance?

None that I notice.

How does it benefit you?

Makes file retrieval faster.

In what circumstances do you turn it off?

During some testing of various things, to minimize chances of interference.
But that is just a general rule of thumb with a lot of things that load at
boot.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org