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Thread ID: 34916 2003-06-28 01:25:00 msconfig in XP Greg S (201) Press F1
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155725 2003-06-28 01:25:00 Now that I've finally got XP (pro) installed I can see I'm gonna have a zillion questions!

In msconfig I see a new tab called Services - there's a couple of dozen items in there all enabled by default - can I happily disable them all?

I know I could do the trial and error thing, but there's so many and I thought someone will probably have a short answer.

Thx!
Greg S (201)
155726 2003-06-28 01:36:00 Hi Greg

I found this site: Black Viper (www.blackviper.com) to be really helpful with explaining all those services and how to tweake them safely.

This section specifically Windows XP Home and Professional Service Configurations (www.blackviper.com)

HTH

Jen
Jen C (20)
155727 2003-06-28 01:45:00 Luvverly! Thanks Jen Greg S (201)
155728 2003-06-28 01:47:00 Thanks Jen. Reading up on the 2k ones now.

Cheers Murray P
Murray P (44)
155729 2003-06-28 11:56:00 Be very careful what you disable in these confuguration services!!!
What the 'Black Viper' site fails to mention in their GAMING or SUPER TWEAK section is that if you disable (1) Security Accounts Manager (2) Remote Access Connection Manager (3) Security Accounts Manager (4)Telephony you wont be able to connect to the internet, for amongst other things, multiplayer gaming (??) Also you might want to leave the System Restore Service as Automatic too (don't disable).
Cheers PF1 :-)
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155730 2003-06-28 12:18:00 Yes be very careful in what services you disable I personally would leave them alone I disabled my internet conection when I was fiddling once took me about half an hour to back track my actions then I had to recreate my connection. beama (111)
155731 2003-06-28 12:23:00 Yeah I had the same problem in Win2k - the inet connection is still there but you just can't use it - dissapeared - weird. HadO (796)
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