An exclusive gaming industry community targeted
to, and designed for Professionals, Businesses
and Students in the sectors and industries
of Gaming, New Media and the Web, all closely
related with it's Business and Industry.
A Rich content driven service including articles,
contributed discussion, news, reviews, networking, downloads,
and debate.
We strive to cater for cultural influencers,
technology decision makers, early adopters and business leaders in the gaming industry.
A medium to share your or contribute your ideas,
experiences, questions and point of view or network
with other colleagues here at iVirtua Community.
I am really against disabling services, but this is really interesting. This article shows you how to run Windows with no services at all, yet still have basic functionaility.
Yes, I have shut off some of my services, including the Security Center, which comes with XP Professional SP2. (I disabled it because it was just annoying, and I have better software to replace it anyways)
Contributed by Predator, Guest 510 iVirtua Loyalty Points • • • Back to Top
Yes, I have shut off some of my services, including the Security Center, which comes with XP Professional SP2. (I disabled it because it was just annoying, and I have better software to replace it anyways)
There is no reason to disable the service. You can easily disable it by going to Control Panel > Security Center > Change the way Security Center alterts me. Then you can uncheck all the boxes.
Really, I see no reason to disable any of the defailt Windows services.
Last edited by KoolDrew on Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:49 am; edited 1 time in total
When I first install my old versions of XP I normally disable a few of the servers (messenger, COM, etc..) but with SP2 I don't need to disable as many any more.
There are quite a few services that you are unlikly to use that are started (like integrated cd burning, UPS device support) which you might as well disable. however I'd say it's not very wise to disable all the services.
There are quite a few services that you are unlikly to use that are started (like integrated cd burning, UPS device support) which you might as well disable.
Both the IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service and the Uninterruptible Power Supply service are set to manual by default. Also if a service is not being used, it will use no CPU time, and Windows will reclaim its memory as needed -- until then it effectively uses no memory either.
There are quite a few services that you are unlikly to use that are started (like integrated cd burning, UPS device support) which you might as well disable.
Both the IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service and the Uninterruptible Power Supply service are set to manual by default. Also if a service is not being used, it will use no CPU time, and Windows will reclaim its memory as needed -- until then it effectively uses no memory either.
Are you sure it doesn't use any memory? It must at least use a little bit.
If memory is needed for other things the memory usage of the service will be shrunk to practically nothing. If memory is not needed for other things it won't, but then who cares?
Digg Topic
Tag topic on On del.icio.us
Technorati Search
Post to Slashdot
