Debunking Common Windows Performance Tweaking Myths

From: Debunking Common Windows Performance Tweaking Myths

 

Thats a good article, however they should add Tablet Services to the list of services you can disable. Thanks for sharing!

 

I found out some very important things from that, there are things I need to watch out for from now on.

 

I was surprised about the ineffectiveness of cleaning out the registry; I was convinced that doing that helped. I'm sure it does, but I have to agree that the performance gain is not worth the risk.

 

Those are excellent tips. The last one isn't entirely invalid though. I disabled some silly ones like messenger, error reporting, help and support center, windows firewall, faxing, and security center.

 

I made all the changes to XP services that Eldergeek recommended.

http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm

and disabled indexing.

 

I usually don't tweak much because with a fast system it's not that a significant change. The only true tweak is HD defrag and a disk cleaner to delete temp fles.

 

Unless you use the snipping tool (it's pretty neat), as it requires the Tablet Services running. So very easy to capture a chunk of the desktop for inclusion in another document, say, like a forum.

 

No, the tablet pc thing is nice.......... I love the snipping tool... very handy for some quick work

 

I do use the Snippet Tool, so I probably set it to manual... I don't have my Vista machine right now. But for some reason its set to Automatic by default.

 

did you guys read the comments at the end of the page..LOL..they make sense

poor les he goes through all this work --this is a better article.. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=166532

 

There was a discussion about this in some thread, whose title I've forgotten, but you don't need that service for the Snipping Tool. I have it set on disabled, and use the Snipping Tool without any problems.

 

Yep, was getting ready to post the same thing. Ditto...

 

I believe the handwriting tab in Windows Live Messenger needs tablet services running. I disabled that service and this tab got funky/disappeared on me. Not that I really needed it.

One thing about services; while they don't necessarily affect performance, they can affect things like security, and potentially stability. A service that isn't running is one less 'attack vector' (MS speak) that is open to attack. Anyone who remembers the old "uPnP" exploit remembers turning off UPnP, and probably even today still does for security reasons, even tho that exploit was dealt with years ago and UPnP is safe today.

 

Nope, not true. It's (the hand-writing tab) is working fine for me without that service.