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From "Making Windows XP Start Faster" at https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1768883,00.asp

Two of the services listed under "Stopping Unneeded Startup Services"

  • Automatic Updates: This service enables Windows XP to check the Web automatically for updates. If you don't want to use Automatic Updates, you can disable the service. You can always check for updates manually at the Windows Update Web site.
  • Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing: If you do not use these features, you can disable them.

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005
    That's just fantastic. You should make sure companies know where to send their malware related bills next time...

    Unbelievable.

  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005
    See, no matter what SafeWhatever technology there is always a human... ahem... factor.

  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005
    Hah, you at Microsoft are working hard to make things more secure and then a dumb, ignorant editor comes along tries to erase all these effort with one single article. Unbelievable!

  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005
    Heck the first thing I did when nLite came out was use it to remove that useless Firewall stuff. I can't imagine how insane the creators of that thing were. It totally kills all my services all the time. All my friends and family want to put me up for some new kind of Nobel prize for disabling that toy. What a complete waste of time. I could never figure out why anyone would want security software on the end system. It belongs in an intermediate location. Hello? A REAL Firewall perhaps? Anyhow, other completely useless services I removed were IPSec and the computer browser.

    And some programs like, um, oh yes...wordpad :)

  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005
    lol! and you wonder why people complain when they get infected.

  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005
    Because a few seconds shaved off the boot time is FAR more important than, y'know, keeping out the bad guys. rolleyes

  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005
    Micheal,
    Please write directly to that PCMag editor, and others in that editorial department, and use the power of your position at Microsoft, to gently correct their misconceptions. (From the principle: "Tell the people who can make a difference.") Also, write a better article, and see if you can get them to publish it.

  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005
    About time Microsoft started taking these MONKEYS to court... might prevent some stupidity from the editors...

  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005
    PC Magazine gave were good advices. The advices are not for basic users but more advanced users that know how to keep their machine secure and running whithout needless ms stuff running around. Great article! Thanks for pointing me this.

  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005

    What if the PC is stand alone, not connected to the internet? Then there would be no advantage in running these services.

  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005
    lol, agreed.

  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005
    Ahhh... Unbelievable...

  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2005
    I can't believe they'd even publish that! If you haven't already, Michael, you should send a letter/email to the Editor-in-Chief.

    There's certainly a lot better services to disable that should be disabled or set to manual anyway on XP (or at least SP2), like the Computer Browser and its dependent Server service for home machines.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2005
    David,
    I'm really glad that you've got an external hardware firewall.

    But you're not 99% of the Windows customers. They NEED the firewall. The firewall's NOT useless to them.

    And, of course, by disabling the firewall, you've set yourself up as an M&M security system. You've got a hard candy shell on the outside and a soft chewy center on the inside. Once someone brings an infected computer onto the network, you've just lost all the computers on that network.

    We run with the firewall enabled on all 7 computers here at my house, AND we have an external firewall.

    Defense in depth is a good thing.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2005
    As linked from Andrea Boschin (in Italian):
    The mother of all the stupid people is always pregnant!

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2005
    What boggles me is why people aren't using the S1&S3 Suspend and Hibernate modes more... most desktops in the past oh 5 years have this support built in, and if you're concerned about boot times, is really a time saver.

    I've got my computer to suspend when pressing the shutdown key on my keyboard, and it will resume when I hit the space bar -- boot time is about a second ;)

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2005
    Frog51: "Yes, it gets you to the desktop faster but is then unusable for up to 4 minutes until all the nonsense loads."

    Something similar happens to me when I first log into Windows; nothing works for a minute or two, and then suddenly everything kicks in. I was able to isolate it to a USB network adapter that I have installed; when it's uninstalled everything starts up right away. Your situation is probably something similar: a poorly written driver or service.

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2005
    Frog51, you must either have a very slow machine or installed many applications that loads when the desktop loads.

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    February 25, 2005
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    February 26, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    March 13, 2005
    Read what it says.
    If you do not use it....
    If you don't want to use it....and manually check for updates.

    There is also a caution note on the article warning not to touch if you don't understand.

    Seems reasonable. Seems clear.

    It's just offering users information.

    Perhaps we should ban the knowledge. Only the elite can be trusted with it. <g>

  • Anonymous
    March 16, 2005
    >>If you do not use it.
    >>If you don't want to use it.

    Problem is, most home users won't know, seriously, they won't know if they "don't want to use it"

  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2005
    most users don't actually know what they are prior to knowing if they want to use it or not. You would be impressed, if you worked with support, on how many users will stop puzzled if you ask them to press the winkey on their keyboard, or how many will ask you "where do I find the control panel again?"

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