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Comment from Michael David Mills on 2008-10-09

2008-10-10T01:09:03Z

Of The Background Programs On My Dell Computer what Windows Vista Background Programs do i not need.

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Comment from Senban on 2007-06-02

2007-06-02T17:23:01Z

Thanks. That idiotic piece of native malware was driving me nuts. Who builds malware in to an operating system. AAAAAARGH!!!

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Comment from Chris on 2006-11-27

2006-11-27T20:22:38Z

Helpful article... I looked at the messenger program and it was already set to disabled, and I do have csrss.exe running in task manager.. so what now? regedit? AI'm afeared... dowanna break stuff..

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Comment from Daniel on 2006-05-28

2006-05-28T08:17:37Z

thanks heaps for the windows messenger removal!! u's are champs
peace!

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Comment from Randy on 2006-04-23

2006-04-23T17:01:34Z

"The Elder Geek" has a more complete description of each service and his opinion on whether you can turn it off at http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm . I find he's more likely to pull the trigger on a service than not, which is worrysome, but at least there's info there to help you decide. I turned off quite a few services on my machine with no ill effects, and hopefully have sped things up a bit.

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Comment from meenu on 2006-04-18

2006-04-18T07:42:10Z

tell me about the information of bootup in xp windows.

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Comment from Lynne Haywood on 2006-03-28

2006-03-28T14:33:21Z

My computer is so slow I have to go do something else after clicking the mouse while I wait for the computer to take action.

On start up I get the error message:-

RUNDALL

Error loading

C:\Program Files\Acceleration Software\Anti-Virus\sstsman.dll

Acceleration is something I tried to uninstall but obviously parts of it remain.

Also my Task Manager says 100% CPU usage and I do not know what it is doing.

How can I speed things up?

thanks, Lynne

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Comment from jason quigley on 2006-03-25

2006-03-25T11:36:56Z

I have a compaq presario v2000 notebook and I have recently moved into a college campus that provides free ethernet broadband internet connection. usually you just plug in the cable and the system should automatically work. after searching for a while the Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC returns a message stating "limited or no connectivity." It also states that the network has not assigned me anetwork address. When I try to repair it the system returns that it can not assign a IP address. Is there something that I am missing on my computer or is it purely the network managers problem. Eveyone elses connections appear to work. Can you give any advise before I have a go at the uni village manager. thanks jason

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Comment from Ivan Tadej on 2006-03-16

2006-03-17T03:39:44Z

Just a further opinion of mine on services that aren't actually used or needed. As it is generally agreed on the ArsTechnica forum where I participate on a daily basis, it is totally unnecessary or even dangerous to some extent (since in situations if/when the service would be in fact needed, it would be very hard to troubleshoot why some program/component is not working properly or at all) to change the default "startup types" (i.e. to disable them for instance) of any of the default XP's services. Why ??

You see, as Leo already partially explained above, if the service is not used on a particular computer, then the data that it uses (RAM that it occupies) is paged-out to the pagefile anyways if the RAM is needed for some other program to run etc., while regarding the CPU cycles that not-used services consume, it's quite similar as in the memory-related example above, i.e. if the respective service is not actually used, then it simply doesn't consume any % of CPU whatsoever even if the service-process is running, while the great majority of them run (i.e. the service are "hosted" by this process) in a single dedicated "svchost.exe" process, which is up and running in any case. These were just my two cents on the subject ...

best regards,
Ivan Tadej, Slovenia, Europe
http://www.tadej-ivan.be/

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