An Excellent, Excellent website for the description and suggestions whether to run or not is the Black Vipers XP site
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm I used this and discontinued about a third of the services as unnecessary. Keith Thompson "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > When you get the PC you need to search the archives for XP > related issues. XP has about 30+ things running the background > (called 'services') and many of which you DO NOT want running. > XP is a sort of "spyware" and "trackware" itself if you don't > know how to set it up correctly. You'd be horrified to find > out what it not only sends back to MS, but to other software > vendors. Checking out the archives would help you with this, > and you should also do some searches on it at a search engine > for things like "XP services", "XP background services", etc. > for info on everything that can be unloaded. > > It also looks like "Fisher-Price" or AOL when you use it at > default settings. I hated this and changed all the appearance > and customizations to "Windows Classic" so it would look and > act more like '98. You may happen to like the way it looks > though, that's just a matter of opinion. I was so used to '98x > that I didn't like XP's default layout/setup. > -Clint > > God Bless Us All > Clint Hamilton, Owner > http://OrpheusComputing.com ) > > -- Keith Thompson, Worthington, OH Home Web Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ Genealogy Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kthompson The solution to a problem changes the problem. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
