Improving Your PC's Performance

• Removing Unneeded Services

Unnecessary services running constantly in the background use up system resources; if they serve no useful purpose for you, they are just slowing your system down.



1. In control Panel – click Administrative Tools, then Services.




2. Unneeded services:


• Print Spooler – if you don’t use a printer


• Wireless Zero Configurator – if you don’t use Wireless


• Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing – if you have firewall


• Uninterruptable Power Supply – if you don’t use one


• Telnet – if you don’t connect to UNIX networks


• Terminal Services – usually can remove


• Smart Card – if you don’t use one


• Alerter – recommend removing as it blocks some popups


• Error Reporting Service – if a program crashes, it won’t ask you to send the error to Microsoft


• Any provided by a product you don’t use anymore (Symantec, Norton, McAfee, AOL, etc etc)





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