To stop or not to stop

[Teri]

Where can I go to find out how to properly set my
services? Which ones should be set on auto or
manual..disabled or stopped, etc....

 

[Miha Pihler]

Hi Teri,

I find this site quite useful when it comes to services:
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

Mike

 

[D.]

Where can I go to find out how to properly set my
services? Which ones should be set on auto or
manual..disabled or stopped, etc....

The black viper website posted in a reply to you is a good one. But
if you are running enough RAM memory, like 1 gig, I wouldn't mess with
anything.

D.

 

[Unknown]

Why not? There are some items that could be shut down and others that should
be shut down regardless of memory size.

 

[D.]

Of course. But those are suggestions. If you are totally sure you
won't be needed such&such, then fine.

That's why I said "if you had 1 gig I wouldn't mess with it", just
because you have such a surplus of RAM. I am guessing & putting a
round figure on it, that changing everything he suggests saves you 50
MBs. Well what's the dif between 400 MBs loading in RAM for me & 350
MBs loading - I still have 600/650 MBs RAM free. I look at my CPU
usage & though the extra stuff is loaded in RAM that I can disable or
put on manual (instead of automatic) as Viper points out, the CPU is
doing nothing, hence those unneeded loaded programs are not doing
anything. So that's all - why mess with it?

But running less than 1 gig I can see...

BTW I have re-installed Windows a week ago after an unsolved
intermittent rebooting problem - another reason I am reluctant to
change some of those settings- which I had done previously. & even
though I'd bet those changes had nothing to do with it.. you know,
same suggestion - why mess with it at 1 gig RAM...

....D.

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