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Optimize Windows XP by disabling Unnecessary Services
Some of the services expose your computer to attacks, allowing remote users to access your computer. To access services, go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and run Services, you will get a list with all services, with status and description for each. You can go trough each service and read the description, all are self explanatory, you don't need much knowledge to understand what each means, but i will give you a list with some Services that you can disable without any problems.
1. Alerter
Notifies selected users and computers of administrative alerts. If the service is stopped, programs that use administrative alerts will not receive them. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start. I don't think it is necessary for a computer to continuously annoy user with alerts.
2. Application Layer Gateway Service
Provides support for 3rd party protocol plug-ins for Internet Connection Sharing and the Internet Connection Firewall If you want to share your internet connections leave it on, but i don't think you want to share your connection with others, because almost all internet service providers don't want their users to share internet, and companies or big networks which want to share connection use routers which are cheap.
3. Automatic Updates
Enables the download and installation of critical Windows updates. If the service is disabled, the operating system can be manually updated. How many times you found automatic updates necessary ? Microsoft software will always have problems, when they try to fix something they will make other security holes, if you want to be secure, you should use a firewall.
4. Background Intelligent Transfer Service
Uses idle network bandwidth to transfer data. This will work well for automatic updates, but are you sure you want that your computer to connect to internet and download stuff that you don't want to ? ... more>>>
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