Speed up your PC with some simple tricks III

Nov 4, 2009 by admin

Disabling XP services which are unnecessary:
There are so many services in windows XP which are unnecessary and disabling these services makes no effect at all. If these services are active they consume some memory which is a waste. So disable the services stated below. Here are the steps to follow in order to disable the services.
1. Click the Start Menu and select Run. In the text box, type services.msc and click OK. This will start the Services utility.
2. Now that you are in the Services utility, you will see a list of a lot of services on your computer. First, you will need to stop the service that you want to disable. Right-click the service name and select Stop on the pop-up menu.
3. When the service is stopped, right-click the service again and select Properties. Located on the General tab, look for the Startup Type drop-down box. Click the arrow on the drop-down box and select Disabled.
4. Click the OK button and from now on, the system will not start the service any more during boot, speeding up your system start.
Disable only following services:
Background Intelligent Transfer Service;
Distributed Link Tracking;
Client Error Reporting Service;
Fast User Switching Compatibility;
Help and Support;
Indexing Service;
Messenger Machine Debug Manager;
Network Location Awareness (NLA);
Portable Media Serial Number Service;
Remote Registry (Only included with Windows XP Pro);
SSDP Discovery Service;
Terminal Services;
Windows Image Acquisition (WIA);
Wireless Zero Configuration (If you have a wireless network card, do not disable this )
Windows Time;
WebClient Task Scheduler