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Windows XP Home running on a P-4, 2.4GHz, 256Mb RAM.

How can I get control over the various stuff that is loading during
boot, or attempting to load. It takes a long and variable time to
boot, things end up in the system tray in odd orders, and I hear the
default beep sound one or more times during boot.

What services are essential and what can be eliminated?

Ctrl-Alt-Del shows several "instances" of apparently the same
processes loaded.

Just want to safely clean things up, etc. ...

"Stephen G. Giannoni" <> wrote in message
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> Windows XP Home running on a P-4, 2.4GHz, 256Mb RAM.
>
> How can I get control over the various stuff that is loading during
> boot, or attempting to load. It takes a long and variable time to
> boot, things end up in the system tray in odd orders, and I hear the
> default beep sound one or more times during boot.
>
> What services are essential and what can be eliminated?
>
> Ctrl-Alt-Del shows several "instances" of apparently the same
> processes loaded.
>
> Just want to safely clean things up, etc. ...

Go to Run on the Start menu and type 'services.msc'. This will bring up a
list of all of the programs that can run or are presently running in the
background.

To find out what each one does simply right click on it and this will
display a dialogue box with a description and a 'Start Type' drop-down menu
with Automatic, Manual or Disable options.

Here are some Services that you may find, these are not usually needed by
non-networked home PCs and can be safely disabled:

Alerter
Clipbook
Computer Browser
DHCP Client
Distributed Link Tracking Client
DNS Client
Fast User Switching
FTP Publishing Service
Human Interface Access Devices
IIS Admin Service
IPSEC Policy Agent
Indexing Service
Messenger
Net Logon
Remote Procedure Call Locator
Remote Registry Service
RIP Service
Run As Service
Server
SSDP Discovery Service
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
Upload Manager
Windows Time
Wireless Zero Configuration
World Wide Web Publishing Service
Workstation

NB. Only disable one Service at a time and if you run into problems simply
switch it back on.

All the stuff ! ...

>
>Here are some Services that you may find, these are not usually needed by
>non-networked home PCs and can be safely disabled:
>

Ah well, we're 2 machines networked via a LinkSys.

Tks. 4 info.

Stephen G. Giannoni <> Ran in the back
door and shouted news:

> Windows XP Home running on a P-4, 2.4GHz, 256Mb RAM.
>
> How can I get control over the various stuff that is loading during
> boot, or attempting to load. It takes a long and variable time to
> boot, things end up in the system tray in odd orders, and I hear the
> default beep sound one or more times during boot.
>
> What services are essential and what can be eliminated?
>
> Ctrl-Alt-Del shows several "instances" of apparently the same
> processes loaded.
>
> Just want to safely clean things up, etc. ...



http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

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MrToad