Services in XP

[dave.green1 0]

Is there any way to configure which services start with each user?

 

Here is an example.

 

I have my account, which is admin. I use it for normal use. I would like to create a gaming account where no services start except RPC, Plug & Play and DHCP client.

 

Is there a way to do this?

 

Thanks guys.

[Champion_R 0]

Services are designed to be system-wide so it doesn't matter who logs on or if anyone is logged on, they should always load.

 

Also IMHO, if your system is semi-decent, unloading system services won't yield much of a performence gain.

[sapiens74 0]

I disable any uneccesary services, and only the absolute ones that require XP to run.

 

You can set a lot of them to manual to only start when called on.

 

Probably the best bet

[dave.green1 0]

Thanks guys....I was pretty sure I couldn't do it, but I figured I'd ask the experts....

[quixoticphantom 0]

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Services are designed to be system-wide so it doesn't matter who logs on or if anyone is logged on, they should always load.

Also IMHO, if your system is semi-decent, unloading system services won't yield much of a performence gain.

I completely disagree; they always should not be loaded. It's more about security -"Champion_R".

The easiest way that I've done this is with a batch file. At www.sysinternals.com -they have a great command-line tool for controlling Services called SC (for XP and Win2k). This nice tool will also pause services (not native from the command line). I have found this tool more useful on Win2k servers, but there is a place for it too on XP systems.

[quixoticphantom 0]

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Services are designed to be system-wide so it doesn't matter who logs on or if anyone is logged on, they should always load.

Also IMHO, if your system is semi-decent, unloading system services won't yield much of a performence gain.

I completely disagree; they always should not be loaded. It's more about security -"Champion_R".

The easiest way that I've done this is with a batch file. At www.sysinternals.com -they have a great command-line tool for controlling Services called SC (for XP and Win2k). This nice tool will also pause services (not native from the command line). I have found this tool more useful on Win2k servers, but there is a place for it too on XP systems.

Oops, the tools is not from www.sysinternals.com. It's a MS resources kit tool.

[DosFreak 2]

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I completely disagree; they always should not be loaded. It's more about security -"Champion_R".

He's not statting that they should always be loaded. He's stating that the services will load the same no matter what user you are using unless you specify a specific user account. By default all NT4/2K/XP services use SYSTEM.

[mmeyer128 0]

dave.green1

 

Actually there is a way to load different services. However, not in the form of different users, rather different hardware profile.

 

Follow this link, http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/xpprofiles.htm and it will show you exactly how you can do that.

 

That website, http://www.blkviper.com/index.html also has many in depth explanation of all the services. It's a great site.

[Champion_R 0]

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I completely disagree; they always should not be loaded. It's more about security -"Champion_R".

In this case we were discussing performence not security. Also most of the default services don't pose a security risk as long as common sense is applied.

[ThC 129 0]

Follow this link, it is the Deviant PC - Ultimate guide to services. Pretty useful, though before you disable any service a system restore should be done.

 

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Also most of the default services don't pose a security risk as long as common sense is applied.

 

That is not true, i would not call UPnP, and remote registry non-security risks. I know that I would love to have my registry remotely accessed by default. Most users don't even have a clue what services are let alone which ones do what. So performance might be an issue but security is more important to me than 5 extra FPS in Quake 3.