I was thinking this afternoon that when i released ServiceTweaker i totally forgot to tell you about a site that has everything you need to know about Windows services, so you can tweak them using my program.

Charles M. Sparks, well known as Black Viper, took the time and made a list of all the services that were included with Windows, along with information about them, the default startup type, what they are for, their dependencies on other services and profiles named like Safe, Tweaked and Bare Bones.

He included the latest Vista SP1 and XP SP3 services a few weeks ago.

In his site you can take a look at the version of Windows you are running to learn about its services and the default state of each one for deciding which one you would like to disable or change to manual.

Configuring the services is a great way of getting reducing the amount of resources that your computer is using. Also, you can shorten the startup and shutdown times as well.

Take you time to look at each service before you disable it. I have always recommended to change the startup to Manual instead of Disabled so i can monitor a few days to see if one of those Manual services are getting started by some application. If they are not, i then proceed to disable them.

You can do the same.

Don’t forget to download the registry file that restores the default configuration of your version of Windows. This way, if you are not sure whay you just did to some service, you can restore the default values.

I hope that Black Viper’s information and ServiceTweaker help you to improve your computer’s performance.

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