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What are all those Windows Services?
by Jordan Running Jul 6th 2005 at 12:22PM
Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del in Windows XP will pop up the task manager, its Processes tab sporting a dizzying list of programs most of which, to the naked eye, aren't doing anything but taking up precious RAM. Many of these are Services, the little programs that Windows starts when you turn on your computer that ostensibly do vital things behind-the-scenes. Of course, some of them truly are useless, which is why this list of Windows XP Services is so handy. The author runs down a dossier of services you will frequently find running on your Windows system, explains what each does, and tells you if, why, and how, you should disable it.
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Justin said 2:01PM on 7-06-2005
This site is great as well for looking up what almost any process is doing and how important it is.
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm
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Similar said 2:56PM on 7-06-2005
If you have to run Windows there is a great page at
http://dhost.info/kyeu/mirror/blackviper/index.html
that gives the most complete run down and guides to tweak the OS that I have found. An almost daunting amount of information.
If you're looking for specific info on how to streamline XP though, it's
http://dhost.info/kyeu/mirror/blackviper/WinXP/xpprofiles.htm
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