How Many Services do you have running in XP

[amdwolfman]

I have 13 services running,what about you all ?,how many?

 

[Miramonti]

30

 

[amdwolfman]

Ouch!!!!. Why so many,and do you think it slows cpu cycles?

 

[Davegod]

33, though that includes AV, firewall, mirc, MBM5, mouse driver, TweakUI stuff, IE, about 4 for my ISDN card s/w...

good site for service tweaks - Black Viper

BTW i was pointed to an app called "startupcpl" or startup.cpl, basically similar to MSCONFIG but gives a bit more info such as full file paht etc, useful for being able to figure what apps are being run on comp startup.

 

[prosaic]

Originally posted by: amdwolfman
Ouch!!!!. Why so many,and do you think it slows cpu cycles?

Take a look at the Processes tab in Task Manager. Services using many CPU cycles? Didn't think so. And, if a service is using a lot of CPU cycles, it's for a reason. IMO the only reason to turn off a service is to eliminate a possible security issue, and even then that is only a good reason if you really don't need the service -- or other services that are dependent upon it.

If you decide to turn some of them off without at least doing some research to know why your system might need them be prepared for a "learning experience." Rather than go to a tweaking site, might I suggest searching for information on each service at the MSKB? Nothing beats going to the horse's mouth for the information you need. Some of the tweaking sites amount to another part of the horse.



- prosaic

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: amdwolfman
Ouch!!!!. Why so many,and do you think it slows cpu cycles?

I might have a couple xp services that I don't need but haven't turned off but at most its using 5% on 'idle'. The services include firewall, cookiepal, printer utility, antivirus, macro utility, trojan watch, web2pop, newsalert, time syncronizer, a number of srvchost.exe(?), task switch powertoy, and the usual xp network services and a few programs open. I keep an eye on it every week to make sure I recognize everything...and run a spyware utility if I don't.

 

[Yomicron]

I currently have 49 processes running.