Disabling some un-needed services gave a huge performance boost

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Dispite adequete resources and hardware I felt my sysytem was sluggish with
Vista B2.

As I nornally had done int he past I decided to take a look at the servcies
to see what stuff I never will use could be disabled to rleases resources.

Besides the usual stuff I found:

Media Center Extender Service
Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service
Parental Controls
Tablet PC Input Service
UPnP Device Host
Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service

I disabled the above and rebooted and WOW it was as if I had released a
tethered animal, the system was much more responsive. One or more of the
above were either leaking resources or were using consdierable resources.

Anyone else have any experiances along the same lines?
 
Yes. As well as those you have dumped, try these (I suggest you test each one
in case you have any adverse effects!)
Computer browser (if not connected to LAN)
- Fax (if not using printer and fax)
- Windows Error Reporting Service
- Media center extender service
- human interface device access
- Secondary logon
- Tablet PC Input service
- Print spooler (if not using printer and fax)
- Windows time
- Media center receiver service (This caused some disfunction on my computer)
- Security center
- Routing and remote access (if not connected to LAN)
- Windows search engine (if not used...)
- Internet connection sharing
- TCP/IP NetBios helper
- Media center scheduler service (This caused some disfunction on my computer)
- Media center service launcher (This caused some disfunction on my computer)
- Server (if not sharing ressource through LAN)
- Offline files
- Remote registry
 
Yes. As well as those you have dumped, try these (I suggest you test each one
in case you have any adverse effects!)
Computer browser (if not connected to LAN)
- Fax (if not using printer and fax)
- Windows Error Reporting Service
- Media center extender service
- human interface device access
- Secondary logon
- Tablet PC Input service
- Print spooler (if not using printer and fax)
- Windows time
- Media center receiver service (This caused some disfunction on my computer)
- Security center
- Routing and remote access (if not connected to LAN)
- Windows search engine (if not used...)
- Internet connection sharing
- TCP/IP NetBios helper
- Media center scheduler service (This caused some disfunction on my computer)
- Media center service launcher (This caused some disfunction on my computer)
- Server (if not sharing ressource through LAN)
- Offline files
- Remote registry
Click to expand...

A few more:
- DHCP Client (if not used on network)
- Distributed Link Tracking Client
- External Memory Devices Management Service (if not used)
- External Memory Device Access (if not used)
- IP Helper (if not using IPv6 ovber IPv4)
- Net.TCP Port Sharing Service (if no app uses it)
- Peer Network Identity Manager
- Protected Storage (if not used)
- SL UI Activation Service
- UPnP Device Host (if not used)
- WebClient
- Windows Firewall (at your own risk)


There are probably more. And as always, which services can be turned off
depends on your usage, many of those above are server-services and of
little/no use for a workstation/home-computer.
 
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