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Greetings Gang! 

Here is a short list of services which can be safely disabled on 
Windows XP. There are others, but these require more advanced 
understanding of your own system and needs. These don't consume a lot 
of resources, but enough of a distraction to process intensive 
applications to perhaps make a difference. 

First of all, I recommend doing this:

Start->Run
type this: eventvwr

1. In the left pane, select "application," right-click, select 
delete. Save to a file before deleting if you like. Do the same for 
System. This will clear all historical logged events.

2. Reboot your computer. Wait 5 minutes to ensure all services load. 
Inspect both the application and the System logs to become familiar 
with what type of events have been logged in one rebooting. This will 
provide a baseline to compare against after disabling services.


3. Begin disabling services. I must point out, if your recording 
computer is on your home network, you won't want to disable computer 
browser, ipsec, cryptographic, net locator.., unless you know what 
these services do and they don't apply to your needs.

(this is a general list, and more or less services can be disabled. 
The purpose of clearing the event logs is to determine if disabling 
any particular services causes an event or problem to occur. Look 
there first if you have errors upon boot.)


4. Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->select Services
(to disable a service, right click, select properties, disable, 
apply. Some of these services may or may not be running)

Auto Update
Background Intelligent Transfer Service
Computer Browser
Cryptographic Services
Ipsec
Netremote meeting, desktop sharing
Fast User Switching
net locator awareness
print spooler
secondary logon
terminal services
telnet
snmp services
upload mgr
web client (any personal web server stuff should be disabled)
wireless0



you must have administrative privileges to do this....

Hope this helps,

Serafim