XP processes: home vs. professional

[Michael Peters]

I have a notebook running XP Professional because I need it for
programming/development work - it runs database servers and application
servers. Now I want to use the same notebook for fun - that is, for music
production. For this purpose I wouldn't need XP Professional - XP home would
do - would be better even because a number of XP Prof background processes
which take up processor time aren't needed in XP home.

I think I will set all processes I don't need for the music part from
'automatic' to 'manual', and when I use the notebook for programming, start
all these processes using a 'net start xy' cmd batch file.

Which XP professional processes can I safely set to 'manual' to basically
turn the XP into a 'home' edition?

And no, I don't want to set up a complete XPhome partition with dual boot,
as somebody suggested. XPProf is fine with me, only that it sometimes does
too many things I don't need.


-mpe

 

[Rob Schneider]

I have a notebook running XP Professional because I need it for
programming/development work - it runs database servers and application
servers. Now I want to use the same notebook for fun - that is, for music
production. For this purpose I wouldn't need XP Professional - XP home would
do - would be better even because a number of XP Prof background processes
which take up processor time aren't needed in XP home.

I think I will set all processes I don't need for the music part from
'automatic' to 'manual', and when I use the notebook for programming, start
all these processes using a 'net start xy' cmd batch file.

Which XP professional processes can I safely set to 'manual' to basically
turn the XP into a 'home' edition?

And no, I don't want to set up a complete XPhome partition with dual boot,
as somebody suggested. XPProf is fine with me, only that it sometimes does
too many things I don't need.


-mpe

Suggest you review the list yourself and make your own judgements about
what you need and don't need. Run "services.msc" program (also
available as one of the admininstrative applications in control panel).

You may find you don't have to worry about this too much. Look at Task
Manager. You'll find these services are there, but if they aren't doing
anything they won't consume CPU cycles. This may not be a "problem"
that you need to fix.

 

[Lorne Smith]

I run XP Pro on a desktop and have a LOT of services running, but unless the
service is actually doing something, they cause no degredation of system
performance whilst playing games. You should note though that notebooks are
not really aimed at game playing and you won't get as good a performance
from it as you would a desktop of the same spec... The bottleneck is usually
the video controller, which on notebooks, really aren't up to the task...

Lorne

 

[CZ]

I have a notebook running XP Professional because I need it for
programming/development work - it runs database servers and application
servers. Now I want to use the same notebook for fun - that is, for music
production. For this purpose I wouldn't need XP Professional - XP home would
do - would be better even because a number of XP Prof background processes
which take up processor time aren't needed in XP home.

I think I will set all processes I don't need for the music part from
'automatic' to 'manual', and when I use the notebook for programming, start
all these processes using a 'net start xy' cmd batch file.

Which XP professional processes can I safely set to 'manual' to basically
turn the XP into a 'home' edition?

And no, I don't want to set up a complete XPhome partition with dual boot,
as somebody suggested. XPProf is fine with me, only that it sometimes does
too many things I don't need.

mpe:

Following has some suggestions:
http://www.3dspotlight.com/tweaks/winxp_services/services-3.shtml