Remove unnecessary services from PC







Optimize your XP Pro system by tweaking service manager ? Remove unnecessary services !


This is important. You don't know how many services are started by your service manager everytime you boot your

system. There is a very strong likelihood that some of these services are never of any use to you and as such you

never directly or indirectly use them. If so, why delay the boot time and also degrade the system performance for

no reason ! Stop this services from starting automatically. Here is How-to ! Open service manager by going to

START-RUN and entering services.msc. Now in the right pane, you would see a list of services some of them would be

started and others don't. Also they could be set to any of three status of start mode. "Manual", "automatic" and

"disabled". If you double Click on any of these you would see detailed info on each of these. You have an option of

starting or stopping the services running on your computer. If you are typical desktop user like most of us, it

might be safe to disable and stop following services. But still do understand it before you do it. Also some of

those listed below may not be available for you as well.


1. Portable Media Serial Number
2. DHCP Client
3. Distributed Link Tracking Client (Most likely you're not connected to a Windows 2000 domain )
4. DNS Client (you're not connecting to a specific DNS server on your local network most of times)
5. FTP Publishing Service
6. IIS Admin Service ( You computer may not be a WWW server and as such no need for this service )
7. IPSEC Policy Agent ( disable it if you're not connected to a Windows 2000 domain )
8. Messenger
9. Remote Registry Service (you don't remotely access the Registry of other systems )
10. RIP Service (If you are a typical home user, you don't need your system to act as a router)
11. Run As Service ( This can also go since most likely you don't use any applications that run as an alias