[bruinator]

Under services, which services absolutely need to be started and which ones can I uncheck that are not necessary at startup?

thanks

PS--OS is XP Pro.

[brillser]

I can't imagine it doing you any harm to read this,

http://www.jasonn.com/turning_off_un..._on_windows_xp

The water is a bit murky though, as, I think that it all very much depends on what programs you use on your machine and so on.

[Cheeseball81]

Google.com is also a great tool to research the services. Or the castlecops website.

[bruinator]

Yes, the many I had questions about were the MS ones, so I guess I should leave as is then, huh?

[Bone Head]

I have these turned off with no problems . If one of them causes a problem , you can always turn it back on .

1] Alerta
2] Clipboard
3] Computer Browser
4] fast user switching
5] Human interface access devices
6] Indexing Service [ Slows the hard drive down ]..
7] Messenger
8] Net log on [ unnecessary , unless networked on a domain
9] Net meeting remote desktop sharing [disable for extra security ]..
10] Remote desktop help session manager [disable for extra security ] ..
11 Remote procedure call Locator
12] Remote Registry [ disable for extra security ] ..
13] Routing & remote access [ disable for extra security ].
14] Server
15] SSDP Discovery Service [ this is for the utterly pointless “ Universal PnP , & leaves TCP
16] Port 5000 wide open
17] TCP/IP Net bios helper
18] Telnet [disable for extra security ]..
19] Universal Plug and Play device host
20] Upload manager
21] Wireless Zero Configuration [for wireless networks ]..
22] Workstation ..

[WhitPhil]

If you want to turn off services, do them using
Start > Run > Services.msc