OT: Windows 2000 question

[Carsten Hintz]

hi all.
this is kind of OT, but I know that I find the right kind of Windows
experts in this group, so I dare to aks.

situation:
I am running eCS 1.03 as my main OS and heavily use Virtual PC 5.1 with
gues systems being eCS, OS/2 and Windows 2000 Professional. the later I
use for gaming (Icewind Dale 2 and good old Age Of Wonders right now).

question:
I would like to optimize the Win2k guest for speed. I know there are a
lot of background processes running as Windows services. many of those
start automatically at system start. can anybody tell me, which of these
can be safely disabled? what else can I do to reduce system load on the
Win2k guest? keep in mind that I only need to be able to launch some
games and things like firewall and stuff are handled by the host OS already.

thanks and regards,
Carsten

[Salvador R. Manzo]

http://www.blackviper.com/WIN2K/servicecfg.htm has a nice list of
default services for Win2k (Pro and Server) along with some
recommendations for Service status (Auto, Manual, Disabled)

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Salvador R. Manzo
System Administrator
Finance and Accounting
USC Auxiliaries Services

These are my views, not USC's. So, there.

[GLMarx]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:09:56 UTC, Carsten Hintz <Carste...@gmx.de>
wrote:

Carsten,

Go here: http://www.blackviper.com/index.html
Everything you ever needed/wanted to know to optimize Windows 2000/XP
for speed ...

BlackViper has complete sections on turning off SERVICES to increase
performance ...
It's a great site for hacking Windows ...

I have no vested interest ... it's just not too often to run into a
site that doesn't cater to windows newbies ...

Let me know what you think ...
Gregory L. Marx