XP Diet?

Sorry more questions about XP. I've read here that XP is great but you have to put it on a diet to get rid of a bunch of stuff it runs in the background. What are they and how do you turn them off? TIA Rudeboy

http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/OS/OSguides.htm this guy rocks. "Rudeboy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:v4Aob.236590$pl3.8041@pd7tw3no... > Sorry more questions about XP. I've read here that XP is great but youhave

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> to put it on a diet to get rid of a bunch of stuff it runs in the > background. What are they and how do you turn them off? > > TIA > > Rudeboy > >

Specifically here: http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm "Charlie B" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:XcAob.9911$[email hidden]...

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> http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/OS/OSguides.htm > > this guy rocks. > > "Rudeboy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:v4Aob.236590$pl3.8041@pd7tw3no... > > Sorry more questions about XP. I've read here that XP is great but you > have > > to put it on a diet to get rid of a bunch of stuff it runs in the > > background. What are they and how do you turn them off? > > > > TIA > > > > Rudeboy > > > > > >

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> Specifically here: > http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm > > > http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/OS/OSguides.htm > > > > this guy rocks. > > > > "Rudeboy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:v4Aob.236590$pl3.8041@pd7tw3no... > > > Sorry more questions about XP. I've read here that XP is great but you > > have > > > to put it on a diet to get rid of a bunch of stuff it runs in the > > > background. What are they and how do you turn them off? > > > > > > TIA > > > > > > Rudeboy

What he said. But also, get rid of all that stupid skinning crap, and all those fading menu effects and that. It's not so bad once you get it set up all nice. I'm still not sure I prefer it over 2000 though.

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> Sorry more questions about XP. I've read here that XP is great but > you have to put it on a diet to get rid of a bunch of stuff it runs > in the background. What are they and how do you turn them off? > > TIA > > Rudeboy

Not really, if you have a decent speed modern system, it should run it great. I would recommend disabling indexing service, unless you do a lot of word phrase searching I doubt you would miss it. If it seems to be a little slow for you, you can start disabling things like fading menus, go back to classic view, etc. I have an Athlon XP2400+ on an Nforce2 mb, and have only indexing service turned off, and my system runs very fast with XP Professional. -- Don Burnette

In article <v4Aob.236590$pl3.8041@pd7tw3no>, Rudeboy says... > Sorry more questions about XP. I've read here that XP is great but you have > to put it on a diet to get rid of a bunch of stuff it runs in the > background. What are they and how do you turn them off? By installing Win2k. -- Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. ICQ: 138579247

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:01:15 GMT, Rudeboy wrote:

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> Sorry more questions about XP. I've read here that XP is great but you have > to put it on a diet to get rid of a bunch of stuff it runs in the > background. What are they and how do you turn them off? > > TIA > > Rudeboy

go back to win2k, the only reason to run xp is if u have a laptop, because it boots real fast.

Hehehe. Yea thats the reason :-) Ive got some land for sale too. Ocean front property, really.... "not [email hidden]" <"not me"@home.com> makes himself look oh so foolish in message news:%v8qb.305485$6C4.304112@pd7tw1no... > > go back to win2k, the only reason to run xp is if u have a laptop, because > it boots real fast. >

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:17:15 GMT, "not [email hidden]" <"not me"@home.com> wrote: > >go back to win2k, the only reason to run xp is if u have a laptop, because >it boots real fast. How uninformed is THAT statement? :rolleyes:

On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 22:52:20 GMT, [email hidden] (Joe Palooka) wrote: >>go back to win2k, the only reason to run xp is if u have a laptop, because >>it boots real fast. > >How uninformed is THAT statement? :rolleyes: I would go along with the general sentiment of it. W2K is a lot more stable for me than XP. -- Andrew. To email unscramble [email hidden] & remove spamtrap. Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards, please don't top post. Trim messages to quote only relevent text. Check groups.google.com before asking a question.