UPDATE: If you have moved to Vista you might like to have a read of this article to make your Vista run faster. Thx Nick.
Disable your unnecessary services to improve performance without sacrificing functionality. Michael Otey writes about Windows XP’s 26 automatic services that startup everytime you boot, Luckily these can be turned off from Control Panel > Services Applet. Few users need all these services and by turing them off you would help your system run more efficiently.
The services that can turned off are:
- Automatic Updates Service
- Computer Browser Service
- Error Reporting Service
- Messenger Service
- Remote Registry Service
- Server Service
- TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
- Task Scheduler Service
- Upload Manager Service
- Wireless Zero Configuration
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