Turn Off Certain services

Why, Tom? Do you not have sufficient memory? If so, buy more, it's not that
expensive. Services, as a general rule, do not use that much memory. If you
find yours lacking, it's more likely to be a background application.

Basically, the memory management model is pretty good, and it should be able
to handle any needed transitions or paging. If you are looking for more
"free" memory, then you are wasting your machine's potential - memory is
designed to be used. Vista's memory model will find use for any memory
available where it can, but it will also release it to more important
applications when warranted.

Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Tom" wrote in message
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Hi,

Anyone know of a good list of services I can turn off to save memory
usage?

[Default] On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 20:57:45 -0500, "Rick Rogers"
spake thusly:

Why, Tom? Do you not have sufficient memory? If so, buy more, it's not that
expensive. Services, as a general rule, do not use that much memory. If you
find yours lacking, it's more likely to be a background application.

Basically, the memory management model is pretty good, and it should be able
to handle any needed transitions or paging. If you are looking for more
"free" memory, then you are wasting your machine's potential - memory is
designed to be used. Vista's memory model will find use for any memory
available where it can, but it will also release it to more important
applications when warranted.

Is Vista vastly improved over XP when it comes to running unnecessary
and unneeded services?

Scott http://angrykeyboarder.com

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Vastly? No. Somewhat, yes. It runs services automatically based on the setup
configuration that most users will want to have running. Like XP, there are
some that may be deemed unnecessary to the more knowledgable user, but the
effect they have on system performance is negligible.

Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Scott" wrote in message
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[Default] On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 20:57:45 -0500, "Rick Rogers"
spake thusly:

Why, Tom? Do you not have sufficient memory? If so, buy more, it's not
that
expensive. Services, as a general rule, do not use that much memory. If
you
find yours lacking, it's more likely to be a background application.

Basically, the memory management model is pretty good, and it should be
able
to handle any needed transitions or paging. If you are looking for more
"free" memory, then you are wasting your machine's potential - memory is
designed to be used. Vista's memory model will find use for any memory
available where it can, but it will also release it to more important
applications when warranted.

Is Vista vastly improved over XP when it comes to running unnecessary
and unneeded services?

Scott http://angrykeyboarder.com

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

[Default] On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 06:30:17 -0500, "Rick Rogers"
spake thusly:

the effect they have on system performance is negligible.

I've read differing opinions on that topic. I don't have one myself.

Hi Rick,

Like in XP, but moreso in Vista (incredible how many services are running),
I don't need a good lot of them running at all. My PC is a stand alone, not
networked and the unnecessary services running are not killing me in memory
so much (you are correct, it is negligable), but they cycle the CPU pretty
much, and I find it unnecessary.

"Rick Rogers" wrote in message
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Why, Tom? Do you not have sufficient memory? If so, buy more, it's not
that expensive. Services, as a general rule, do not use that much memory.
If you find yours lacking, it's more likely to be a background
application.

Basically, the memory management model is pretty good, and it should be
able to handle any needed transitions or paging. If you are looking for
more "free" memory, then you are wasting your machine's potential - memory
is designed to be used. Vista's memory model will find use for any memory
available where it can, but it will also release it to more important
applications when warranted.

Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Tom" wrote in message
news:

Hi,

Anyone know of a good list of services I can turn off to save memory
usage?