Question for Computer Techies!

[Dangerdoll]

Originally posted by dwayne
hehe, hi-jacker! You can hi jack my thread any time DD!

Thanks Reef!

I will faithfully run Spybot and Adaware, and delete all internet temporary files once per week.

~Tara

Thanks Tara

 

[Elmo]

Originally posted by kikuchiyo

6: Disable the Windows XP services you don't need. Mac OSX does this automatically. Here is a good walkthrough of everything you need to do for it:
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

Just a note, I would avoid simply disabling the services that this guy says are safe to disable unless you have some sort of an idea of what you are doing. I have had a fair number of people coming in very frustrated after spending a lot of time trying to figure out why something isn't working, and the fix ends up being a service not being able to start because a dependancy was disabled. Often this has been a result of someone following an xp tweak tutorial without fully understanding what they were doing.

 

[dwayne]

Thanks for the heads-up Elmo... I would never mess with my windows settings, unless specifically told by one of my IT people. I am not even sure I would know what to disable and what not to disable!

~Tara