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Those seem reasonable, but, as one of the commenters on that page said, it's not too helpful to tell people to disable services they don't need if they don't know which ones they don't need. Also according to the comments, the page file tip may be dubious. But generally, I've done all those things and they are good things to do (especially disabling unnecessary services).

do you lot recon every step is 100% safe, surley he would not state somethings that would effect anything?

Different third party widgets and visual styles like for Vista like look and feel make your system slow.

Say what now?

Before you guys do disabling services that you think you don't need, do two things:

1. Make a backup of the registry. Go to Start > Run and type "regedit" (no quotes). Now go to File > Export and save it as something.

2. Make a new hardware profile so you can change the services for that profile and not your normal one, so if you screw it up you can just go back to your normal one which you didn't affect. Right-click My Computer and go to Properties. Now click the Hardware tab, and then click on hardware profiles. Select the one on the top and press Copy, then give it a name. Then go to the properties of the new one you made and check the box that says "Always include this profile as an option when Windows starts". Then press OK and close all the windows.

Now you can do whatever you want to the services without worrying about screwing Windows up. Go to Start > Run and type "services.msc" (no quotes). Now click one of the useless services, lets say "Alerter". Double-click it and then go to the Logon tab. At the bottom you'll see the new hardware profile that you made. Click that and press the "Disable" button to disable it for that profile. Don't disable it for your normal profile, because then if you disable one that was needed you will be screwed.

Read the descriptions on the services and you should be able to tell what you need and what you don't. Make sure you check out the Dependencies tab (after you double-clicked a service) to see what it depends on to start, and see what other services depend on it to be running. Then check out those services to see if they are also un needed.

Have fun.

commandochristian wrote:

Found this today, some are helpful if you want to speed up XP, maybe free up a little more memory for the resource-hungry BF2:

A guide to Speedup Windows XP in Minutes!

*Note: I didn't do all of these, why? I didn't feel comfortable with doing them.  I did 1,2,3, and 6.  Also, there is a butt load of grammatical errors, among other typos, on the page, so be ready to do a little bit of deciphering.  The guy can't even count right, the steps go from #7 to #9 LOL!

If you don't feel comfortable taking tips from a man who can't count. Try this:

Take your computer and throw it down a hill/off the top of a building. Believe me its the fastest you will ever see XP go. (Results may vary)

EndItAll 2 FTW! if u need tweaking

LT.Victim wrote:

Do I really want to trust a guy who can't count with my computer?

WHAT HE SAID