Alert: Microsoft runs programs, you don't need, on your mashine!

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Mary Jane

Hi,

summer 2003 me and and 2 friend discussed the fact that Microsoft
runs a big number of hidden programs, so called services, on your mashines.

Some services are needed, however many of them just slow down your mashine
and are a potential security problem.

The guys are M.Sc. in Engineering and they succeded to create an easy
but efficient program to manage the services on a XP-mashine. The program
not only lets you to be able to always role back any operation, but also
has an extended database with descriptions on basically any service you may
have
on your mashine.

I myself always shut down unsafe and resourse hogging services manually -
that way
increasing my system stability, speed and safeness. However with their free
program,
even a person who hasn't any experience with playing around with services,
can do
the same thing, but faster and safer.

The program (Service Stopper XP) may be downloaded from:

http://home.student.uu.se/a/amgh6063/SSXP/ss.htm

/Kim
 
"Mary Jane" said in news:[email protected]:
Hi,

summer 2003 me and and 2 friend discussed the fact that Microsoft
runs a big number of hidden programs, so called services, on your
mashines.
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No, they aren't hidden anymore than any other background process. You could
make the same silly claim about the startup processes (programs, servers,
daemons) in Unix.
Some services are needed, however many of them just slow down your
mashine and are a potential security problem.

The guys are M.Sc. in Engineering and they succeded to create an easy
but efficient program to manage the services on a XP-mashine.
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I need yet another interface to manage NT Services other than the Services
MMC (services.msc)? If the user doesn't have the knowledge how to use this
simple applet then using something else won't help them, either, especially
if they don't even understand what are the NT services they have configured
for Automatic startup (almost all of which descriptions can be easily found
by looking at KB articles at Microsoft's KB site or just reading the
included help). Yes, there are newbie users and dumb users (i.e., those
that refuse to learn anything), but using some other utility to make the
decisions for them still keeps them newbies or dumb. What did the utility
do? They don't know. Ad-Aware and Spybot (anti-spyware products) take the
same approach in treating their users like idiots, so I have to use
InstallWatch to see what the hell these utilities changed because they won't
tell you.
The
program not only lets you to be able to always role back any
operation, but also has an extended database with descriptions on
basically any service you may have
on your mashine.

I myself always shut down unsafe and resourse hogging services
manually - that way
increasing my system stability, speed and safeness. However with
their free program,
even a person who hasn't any experience with playing around with
services, can do
the same thing, but faster and safer.

The program (Service Stopper XP) may be downloaded from:

http://home.student.uu.se/a/amgh6063/SSXP/ss.htm

/Kim
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Probably see the same recommendations by running Microsoft's Security
Baseline Analyzer (MSBA). Look under the "Additional System Information"
section for the "Services" category. It will report some potentially
unnecessary services that may be *installed*. If you look at the results,
check that these services are stopped (and also checked they are configured
for Manual start). There's no harm in having them installed if you have
them stopped and configured to Manual startup.

System Configuration Utility (msconfig.exe) can also let you know what
services are running. Unchecking a service configures it as Disabled; i.e.,
it won't load on Windows startup nor can any program start it to use it.
 
With this program you can have different service profiles (combination of
service) , that you can enable when you need to do so.
When you are on the net, use one profile, when sitting on a train with your
laptop another one. The profile
changes are made with out restart and you can save your profiles.
 
Mary Jane said:
Hi,

summer 2003 me and and 2 friend discussed the fact that Microsoft
runs a big number of hidden programs, so called services, on your mashines.

Some services are needed, however many of them just slow down your mashine
and are a potential security problem.

The guys are M.Sc. in Engineering and they succeded to create an easy
but efficient program to manage the services on a XP-mashine. The program
not only lets you to be able to always role back any operation, but also
has an extended database with descriptions on basically any service you may
have
on your mashine.

I myself always shut down unsafe and resourse hogging services manually -
that way
increasing my system stability, speed and safeness. However with their free
program,
even a person who hasn't any experience with playing around with services,
can do
the same thing, but faster and safer.

The program (Service Stopper XP) may be downloaded from:

http://home.student.uu.se/a/amgh6063/SSXP/ss.htm

/Kim
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Why install third party software when a simple
Start-->Run-->services.msc will allow you to configure all services
running on the local machine? Faster and safer, either way you
shouldn't be messing around with services unless you have a knowledge
of what each one does.

/kyle burnam
 
With this program you can have different service profiles (combination of
service) , that you can enable when you need to do so.
When you are on the net, use one profile, when sitting on a train with your
laptop another one, when playing system-demanding games another one.The
profile
changes are made with out restart and you can save your profiles.

Also an extended database with a huge number of services and explanations
and dependencies is included in the software.

Give it a try.
 
With this program you can have different service profiles (combination of
service) , that you can enable when you need to do so.
When you are on the net, use one profile, when sitting on a train with your
laptop another one, when playing system-demanding games another one.The
profile
changes are made with out restart and you can save your profiles.

Also an extended database with a huge number of services and explanations
and dependencies is included in the software.

Give it a try.
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I would consider your program useful, but this is the wrong target
audience... people here are more likely "hands on" about this sort of
thing, while the so-called "average user" might take to something like
this, with more explaination about what the services are, the impact of
disabling 'em.
 
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