How to have a safer and faster XP?
Posted on June 21st, 2009 by Jason
To disable unneeded startup services for a safer, faster XP, use the “Services” Admin Tool (Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services). If you are a single user of a non-networked machine, you can disable the following items, with no ill effect.
- Alerter
- Clipbook
- Computer Browser
- Fast User Switching
- Human Interface Access Devices
- Indexing Service (Slows the hard drive down)
- Messenger
- Net Logon (unnecessary unless networked on a Domain)
- Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing (disabled for extra security)
- Remote Desktop Help Session Manager (disabled for extra security)
- Remote Procedure Call Locator
- Remote Registry (disabled for extra security)
- Routing & Remote Access (disabled for extra security)
- Server
- SSDP Discovery Service (this is for the utterly pointless “Universal P’n'P”, & leaves TCP Port 5000 wide open)
- TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
- Telnet (disabled for extra security)
- Universal Plug and Play Device Host
- Upload Manager
- Windows Time
- Wireless Zero Configuration (for wireless networks)
- Workstation
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Mike J on 12 Nov 2009 at 2:29 pm #
This is really a good idea. Disabling unwanted processes, esp. Indexing Service, makes for faster start-up & shutdown times, & also reduces the processes you have running in memory, so your RAM is freed up.