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Friday, October 17, 2008

Turn Off Vista's Useless Junk And Speed Up Your PC

There are over 100 background services running in Vista. Most of them do nothing but slow you down!
Any frequent reader of my Hubs knows that I am far from Windows Vista's greatest fan. I may actually be one of the loudest and most persistent critics of this misbegotten excuse for an operating system (OS).

I am currently receiving a measure of vindication as more and more people are finding stubborn and often insurmountable problems with drivers, applications, and worst of all, the sheer sluggishness of this monstrous OS which requires a jaw-dropping 15GB of free hard drive space just to install. And if you ever want to uninstall it, you're better off just reformatting the disk or you'll be weeks just trying to put all the pieces back together.

There are well over a hundred services inside Vista's innards, and most of them do absolutely nothing for the common, average user other than slow down his PC to a crawl and require outrageous amounts of hard drive space, RAM and CPU cycles. If you are even remotely considering using Vista, you had better have an uncle in the PC business as you're going to require a system with some truly massive power. All the people who think that just because their Centrino 512MB RAM laptop has a sticker that says it's "Vista Ready" that you'll actually be able to do something with it. Lots of luck!

There is so much sheer unadulterated trash gumming up the works on Vista that the average, normal user is truly well off by just turning the vast majority of it off. The readers of my Hubs are not generally the top multinational enterprise administrator types, but regular men and women who just use their computers for everyday common uses. I can assure you that well over 99% of these readers do not have any need whatsoever for the following Windows Vista services running all the time and turning your speedy computer into a mud bog slogger:



KTMRM for Distributed Transaction Coordinator

Network Access Protection Agent

Peer Name Resolution Protocol

Pen Service

PnP-X IP Bus Enumerator Service

Remote Access Connection Manager

Remote Registry

Secondary Logon

SL UI Notification Service

SSDP Discover Service

Tablet PC Input Service

TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper

UPnP Device Host

Virtual Disk

WebClient

Windows Management Instrumentation

Windows Media Center Extender Service

WinHTTP WebProxy AutoDiscovery Service

and let's not even mention Aero! (Gag!)

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