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3rd Aug 2004, 7:29am

Disabling services on Windows

I just disabled a bunch of services on my computer. It's amazing how much crap is running using up memory and resources. Hopefully it will run a little bit quicker now.

Beware, if you want to disable services, which is a pretty dangerous thing to do, you need to read this information first.

I decided to disable these ones that were actively running:

• Alerter
• Computer Browser
• Distributed Link Tracking
• Machine Debug Manager
• Messenger
• Remote Registry Service
• Server
• Smart Card
• Still Image Service
• TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Service

That's 10 fewer things running, woohoo. I'll update this entry if I notice that anything broke.