Comments on: Disable Unwanted Windows Services http://www.sizzledcore.com/2007/04/06/faster-xp/ A technology blog based on Android, iPhone, brings you a wide coverage of Internet media news, gadgets reviews and tips/tricks that you won't find anywhere else! Learn how to tweak Firefox, Facebook tricks, unlock iPhone, iPad and root Android phones. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Fast Windows XP Shutdown http://www.sizzledcore.com/2007/04/06/faster-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-8824 Fast Windows XP Shutdown Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:43:36 +0000 http://sizzledcore.uni.cc/blog/2007/04/06/faster-xp/#comment-8824 [...] can also increase the booting/startup time for Windows XP by disabling unwanted services. If you liked this post: Follow me on Twitter   or    Subscribe via [...] [...] can also increase the booting/startup time for Windows XP by disabling unwanted services. If you liked this post: Follow me on Twitter   or    Subscribe via [...]

]]> By: Larry Miller http://www.sizzledcore.com/2007/04/06/faster-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-8342 Larry Miller Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:25:43 +0000 http://sizzledcore.uni.cc/blog/2007/04/06/faster-xp/#comment-8342 Be vey careful when disabling services. There is no is no publicly available list anywhere that fully explains what these services do. Many do more than what is shown in Control Panel and have implications that are far from obvious. You might disable service today and all seems well. Six months later you install a new device or application and it fails or behaves strangely. This can result in hours of difficult troubleshooting. The benefits of disabling services are highly overrated. Controlled testing has repaatedly shown that performance gains are very small, even on systems with limited RAM. In most cases the potential risks far outweigh the performance gains. Larry Miller Microsoft MCSA Be vey careful when disabling services. There is no is no publicly available list anywhere that fully explains what these services do. Many do more than what is shown in Control Panel and have implications that are far from obvious. You might disable service today and all seems well. Six months later you install a new device or application and it fails or behaves strangely. This can result in hours of difficult troubleshooting.

The benefits of disabling services are highly overrated. Controlled testing has repaatedly shown that performance gains are very small, even on systems with limited RAM. In most cases the potential risks far outweigh the performance gains.

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA

]]> By: Sizzled Core » Blog Archive » Speed Up Windows XP Shutdown http://www.sizzledcore.com/2007/04/06/faster-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Sizzled Core » Blog Archive » Speed Up Windows XP Shutdown Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:22:06 +0000 http://sizzledcore.uni.cc/blog/2007/04/06/faster-xp/#comment-223 [...] You can also increase the booting/startup time for Windows XP by disabling unwanted services. [...] [...] You can also increase the booting/startup time for Windows XP by disabling unwanted services. [...]

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