TechBuji.com » Operating System http://www.techbuji.com/tips Web 2.0 and Tech News Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:49:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Unwanted services in Windows XP http://www.techbuji.com/tips/2009/08/25/unwanted-services-in-windows-xp/ http://www.techbuji.com/tips/2009/08/25/unwanted-services-in-windows-xp/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:24:54 +0000 TechBuji http://www.techbuji.com/tips/?p=2008 The following services can be safely disabled in Windows XP.

Warning : Do this at your own risk. If anything is not working for you, revert back to the previous state.

Click on Start Menu and Run. Type services.msc and click ok to open the service manager.

Unwanted Services in Windows XP

  1. Alerter
  2. Clipbook
  3. Error Reporting Service
  4. Help and Support. (if you do not need help)
  5. Indexing Service
  6. Net.Tcp Port Sharing Service
  7. NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing ( If you are not using Remote Desktop )
  8. Telnet ( If you are not using Remote Desktop )
  9. Terminal Services ( If you are not using Remote Desktop )
  10. Remote Desktop Help Session Manager ( If you are not using Remote Desktop )
  11. Remote Registry ( If you are not using Remote Desktop )
  12. Routing and Remote Access ( If you are not using Remote Desktop )
  13. Performance Logs and Alerts
  14. Print Spooler ( if you do not have a printer)
  15. SSDP Discovery Service
  16. System Restore Service (if you do not use system restore)
  17. Themes (if you do not use Themes)
  18. Wireless Zero Configuration (if you do not have a wireless connection)
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Disclaimer : The list is not complete. I came up with this list from the experience i got from working with my 5 year old machine with 512 MB Ram and partially working motherboard.

  1. Disable Visual Effects
    Right click on My Computer, select Properties, go to Advanced -> select Settings under Performance -> Select Adjust for best performance.
  2. Set virtual memory to double of your RAM. Keep the Initial and Maximum size same.
  3. Keep the size of your C: drive (drive where you install Windows) at 10 GB
  4. Install all programs in D:\Program Files\
  5. Disable sounds (control panel)
  6. Disable system restore
  7. Disable Error Reporting
  8. Disable Remote Assistance and Remote Desktop if you do not use them
  9. Remove Desktop background
  10. Remove all unwanted startup programs
  11. Disable all unwanted services.
  12. Uninstall all unwanted programs.
  13. Defragment all disks
  14. Disable Desktop Cleanup Wizard
  15. Uncheck “Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching” after right clicking each drive.
  16. Run CheckDisc once in a while
  17. Unshare all useless shared folders and files.
  18. Uncheck hide inactive icons.
  19. Run diskcleanup once in a while
  20. Delete system restore files
  21. Remove Windows Messenger
  22. Use classic start menu
  23. Disable hibernation if you are not using that.  NB: Hibernation is a better method than sleep for saving time.
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