dont turn off "remote procedure call" or "security accounts manager".
they are quite a bit more difficult to turn back on, and the machine
will not log into any user account with them off.
--- Ken Elliott <kelliott4@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> >> What I would hope to find is a program that will recognize
> >> the unwanted windblows background stuff and turn off anything
> >> that will not cause the machine to crash.
>
> I guess that would be the power switch... <grin>
>
> Others have had good advice, but I would suggest going to Control
> Panel/Administrative Tools/Component Services, and turning off all
> un-needed
> services (on the "Services" branch). This is by far the safest
> route, since
> the machine is sure to boot afterward. Naturally, if you turn off
> some
> services (network, DHCP Client, etc) you might lose a function you
> need. But
> that is easy to restore.
>
> I strongly prefer Windows 2000 over XP. W2k is NT 5.0. XP is NT
> 5.1. It
> seems to me that the .1 represents a lot of the crap I dislike, that
> steal
> CPU cycles.
>
>
> Ken Elliott
>
> =====================
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of paddy
> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:27 PM
> To: Suncoast Linux User Group
> Subject: [SLUG] Windblows background processes
>
> Can anybody recommend any utilities that will shut down the
> unnecessary
> programs that the developers of Windblows insist on running in the
> background, i.e messenger, outlook, ad nasuem. I am only running
> this
> horrible operating system because Photoshop CS2 runs on it and I
> cannot
> afford aMAC at this time. I tried "End it All" but that was not of
> much
> help because I had to figure which programs to close and the menu
> only gave
> me the names of programs I need to run.
>
> What I would hope to find is a program that will recognize the
> unwanted
> windblows background stuff and turn off anything that will not cause
> the
> machine to crash. I know that's asking for a lot because it does not
> take
> much to crash Windblows.
>
> My machine has an Anthlon XP 3200 "Barton" CPU, a Maxtor 250 gb HD,
> 2GB of
> PC 3200 400 DDR, Windows XP, Service Pack 2 and a few other nice
> things.
> I'm tired of Windblows running a bunch of crap in the background that
> are
> not needed, and useing up a lot of memory.
>
> TIA
>
> Paddy
>
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