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[TheBoy]

Quite fun looking up every service and seeing what it does, some get deleted and some get put to manual.

One thing I use 4OD/BBC I player occasionally (4 or 5 times), time to blag free 4OD of BT Vision I think, all the Kontiki rubbish is stopped and manual.

I examine all startups as carefully as well.

Saves reinstalling Windows

surprised its taken you this long to delve into services, esp in XP, being old fashioned MS ebable everything.

Group Policy is often a more robust way to kill services (an app running under a user who logs on with admin rights (a big no-no, but every dimwit does it  ) can restart anything it likes...

[Martin_1962]

Quite fun looking up every service and seeing what it does, some get deleted and some get put to manual.

One thing I use 4OD/BBC I player occasionally (4 or 5 times), time to blag free 4OD of BT Vision I think, all the Kontiki rubbish is stopped and manual.

I examine all startups as carefully as well.

Saves reinstalling Windows

surprised its taken you this long to delve into services, esp in XP, being old fashioned MS ebable everything.

Group Policy is often a more robust way to kill services (an app running under a user who logs on with admin rights (a big no-no, but every dimwit does it  ) can restart anything it likes...

Played around before but not needed to go so mad. At work as long as my PC does what it is told I am OK

[TheBoy]

Quite fun looking up every service and seeing what it does, some get deleted and some get put to manual.

One thing I use 4OD/BBC I player occasionally (4 or 5 times), time to blag free 4OD of BT Vision I think, all the Kontiki rubbish is stopped and manual.

I examine all startups as carefully as well.

Saves reinstalling Windows

surprised its taken you this long to delve into services, esp in XP, being old fashioned MS ebable everything.

Group Policy is often a more robust way to kill services (an app running under a user who logs on with admin rights (a big no-no, but every dimwit does it  ) can restart anything it likes...

Played around before but not needed to go so mad. At work as long as my PC does what it is told I am OK

Thats not goo dfor security

[VXL V6]

I always seem to make a hash of group policy!  

Wireshark is a useful little app for me.

[humbucker]

i tend to be running lots of memory intensive graphics and audio authoring applications for work (and occassionally play!) and have found this little blighter is pretty handy, maxmem

basically you can use it to flush your pc's memory to free up space as you're working. alternatively it can be set to automatically detect when you're down on space and it can flush out the memory for you.

nifty. and free.

AnalogX MaxMem is a realtime physical memory management program that automatically ensures that you always have as much physical memory available as possible. It does this by allowing you to set minimum amounts of memory to be made available under certain circumstance, and then passively monitoring how much system resources are being used. It runs in the system tray, and also shows you exactly how much memory you have available, plus graphs how you've been using memory over the last 60 seconds!

http://www.analogx.com/CONTENTS/download/system/maxmem.htm

[DC]

using (and happy with) ad-aware, avast, regcleaner, hijack-this and top favorite powerquest partition magic pro. less pleased with pc tools spyware doctor (still using though), avg antivirus and zone alarm.

[Iainv6]

My favorite (and nastiest) utility, is a little Java prog called Spamfryer, it lets you get a little retribution on malicious phishing sites who try to get bank details etc.

[Martin_1962]

Quite fun looking up every service and seeing what it does, some get deleted and some get put to manual.

One thing I use 4OD/BBC I player occasionally (4 or 5 times), time to blag free 4OD of BT Vision I think, all the Kontiki rubbish is stopped and manual.

I examine all startups as carefully as well.

Saves reinstalling Windows

surprised its taken you this long to delve into services, esp in XP, being old fashioned MS ebable everything.

Group Policy is often a more robust way to kill services (an app running under a user who logs on with admin rights (a big no-no, but every dimwit does it  ) can restart anything it likes...

Played around before but not needed to go so mad. At work as long as my PC does what it is told I am OK

Thats not goo dfor security

My work PC is pretty secure I don't care that it is open as only I use it, secure on hte internet side too.

Home is quite secure with AV and firewall