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Which services can I remove from my computer without affecting anything?

How do I speed up "saving your profile" when you log out?

(my brother's profile saves in 3 seconds, while mine (which is admin) takes 2 minutes to save)

Copy paste what you have running now and I'll let you know

Mr Bean wrote:Copy paste what you have running now and I'll let you know

Do you have a network with other computers?

If so do you share stuff betveen them? (Printers, Files, whatever)

Also how do you connect to the internet? Phone, adsl, cable or something else?

Faram wrote:Do you have a network with other computers?

If so do you share stuff betveen them? (Printers, Files, whatever)

Also how do you connect to the internet? Phone, adsl, cable or something else?

No network at home. I connect to the internet through a cable modem
connected thru my 10/100 Ethernet port

Turn off Automatic Updates, Sucks up bandwidth and you'll know to do it yourself every so often
Turn off the Print Spooler if you don't have a printer
Turn off all the Remote Access ones(Unless you do that)
Turn off Still Image Service
Turn off Telephony(Unless you use 56k)
And turn off the Tiny Personal Firewall(Next to useless)

I fixed the prob of my admin username taking FOREVER to log in and off
of Win2K, but the solution FUCKING NUKED my ICQ/AIM lists...

I usually don't bother with messing around with the services.

You should, its a good 1%-8% Preformance increase depending on what fat you can cut out of Windows

MKSheppard wrote:How do I speed up "saving your profile" when you log out?

Defrag your disk if you haven't done it lately. Windows can take ages to save user profiles if the various profile data files are badly fragmented.

Mr Bean wrote:You should, its a good 1%-8% Preformance increase depending on what fat you can cut out of Windows

For me it's really not worth it to get such a small boost; I've done it before and I really didn't notice it. Hell, I kept the XP Theming Service open this time.

I dont notice itty bitty boots either. Especially since my needs are pretty low.

One thing I do is try to keep my profile as small as possible. I store everything on another partition. Not sure if it really helps performance, but you know what they say! If you think it does, then it must work.

I would turn off the IPSEC thing and the task scheduler (unless you use it).

Also set to manual "Messenger".

Enlightenment wrote:

MKSheppard wrote:How do I speed up "saving your profile" when you log out?

Defrag your disk if you haven't done it lately. Windows can take ages to save user profiles if the various profile data files are badly fragmented.

Oops...I just realised that I haven't defragged my computer on this install yet...52%

Poor bastard. That's gonna take about 2 hours .