Vista Services
Tue, 05/20/2008 - 07:06 — peter
Ed Bott strongly suggests that attempts to disable windows services in an effort to improve system efficiency are counter productive and probably unsafe.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=448
Peter
After reading the WHOLE article I must say I still agree with Gizmo 100%. Mythbusters do create myths. That's an article for begginers, very patternalist, I learned nothing reading it. Tweaking the right services, I can tell you my Vista boots in 21 seconds and at startup it is only using 500 MB of ram. Previously I was booting in more than 50 seconds and using 1 GB at startup. I'm using it over a year and I never experienced an issue with it.
Feel free to delete the post (again) if you don't feel confortable with it.
It was the positioning i didn't like ... and the fact that this would be better transferred to the Forum Debating Chamber ... but the transfer failed.
His article is directed towards those who mindlessly remove services and I agree with him.
I don't think his comments apply to individuals who have done their homework.
If you do it the right way removing unnecessary services from Vista will speed the system up without affecting safety or stability. Check out this guide for the right way to do it:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/dr/make-vista-run-faster.htm
O no it isn't; it's directed at those who spend time carefully working out which services to disable.
"On an otherwise healthy PC running Windows Vista, disabling most built-in Windows services is extremely unlikely to have any noticeable effect on memory usage, startup or shutdown time, or system performance. On the contrary, you are more likely to create problems by disabling services. Not to mention the amount of time you will surely waste and the productivity you will lose with all that starting and stopping and rebooting and web searching."
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