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Serafim,

----- Original Message -----
> Depending on the responses to this post, I'll post a general listing
> of them in a few days...

Please, do post whatever you find out here.

Rgds,

Bj\ufffdrn Elfstr\ufffdm

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

Thanks for the list. I haven't even bought WinXp yet but between the LUG and
tweakxp.com I've compiled a massive list of tweaks already. 

I have a couple questions, if you don't mind... 

By disabling telnet can you still run telnet.exe? or is the 'telnet' service
a telnet server running in WinXP?

Computer Browser? so can you still use Windows Explorer and Internet
Explorer? I guess with WinXP its supposed to be faster to use that Windows
Commander program for Windows Explorer anyway...... 

No big deal, I'd figure this stuff out on my own as soon as my WinXP box is
built, just figured I'd ask though as I have nothing particularly better to
do at work right now :-) Only 120 new emails in LUG overnight since I got
completely caught up yesterday, I'm feel strange not having 500+ new emails
to go through so I thought I'd generate a few more!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: soreyenus [mailto:soreyenus@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 7:22 PM
> To: logic-ot@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Fw: [L-OT] XP services that can be disabled
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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--- In logic-ot@y..., "Martin, Jeremy" <martje@n...> wrote:
> I have a couple questions, if you don't mind... 
> 
> By disabling telnet can you still run telnet.exe? 

No.

or is the 'telnet' service
> a telnet server running in WinXP?

yes.
> 
> Computer Browser? so can you still use Windows Explorer and Internet
> Explorer? 


totally different. Yes, you can still use explorer. Computer browser 
is part of local network browsing for other machines, etc, that 
allows network visibility and more...

check out Microsoft.com for a better description of any other 
services.