slow speed

Fred Roven · Jul 20, 2003

I have 5 versions of svchost running and one is using 20,000 K many more
times the usage on any other workstation. I am having serious speed
problems and wonder if this might be an explanation.

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Fred Roven
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Danny W · Jul 21, 2003

You often get more than one version of some processes running as many
services are sometimes handled by only one program, using different
parameters.

The best solution I can think of is disabling some services:
1. Open the Computer Management console (right-click My Computer & click
Manage)
2. Go to Services & Applications\Services in the tree
3. Turn off ones you don't need by right-clicking it, going to Properties
and setting it to Manual (the safe option) or Disabled (if you know you will
never, ever need it)

If you have a stand-alone PC or one in a workgroup (i.e. not on a corporate
domain network) you can disable the NT doman services:
· Messenger (this is NOT MSN)
· IPSEC Policy Agent
· Remote Registry
· Net logon
· Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service
· DNS Client
· Distributed Transaction Coordinator
QoS RSVP
· NT LM Sec Support

And some others you can disable:
· Uninteruptable Power Supply (if you do not have a power backup system
connected (e.g. APC BackUPS or SMartUPS)
· Wireless Config (if you have no wireless network)
· Internet Connection Sharing (if not used)
· Alerter
· RunAs Service (if you don't use program aliases - if you don't understand
you probably don't use them)
· Smart Card & Smart Card Helper

Look through the descriptions and look for others you don't use.

If your system stops working, you can always re-enable them.

You must be an administrator to change these settings.

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Danny W