Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:44:07 +0100 From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] AVG Free Issues
Matt Hanson wrote: > > Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:27:16 -0800 (PST) > From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] AVG Free Issues > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Here's a link to a couple of very handy utilities (& other things), > > Control Panel and Startup Monitor, for W2K. Control Panel offers a > > fancied-up msconfig-type utility, which works very well, allowing one to > > select/deselect software that W2K will run at startup. A great > > improvement over Task Manager. > > Hmmm... Looks like a handy utilty to shut down some processes that > otherwise might also be disabled in the W2K Administrative Tools. Haven't > gotten to the point of installing the stripped down version of W2K Philip > writes about. But I keep wondering if it might be possible to get more > performance out of W2K by just going in and shutting down processes that I > may not need, as I'm not running it as a client server. For a start, have a look here: http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/win2k_services/ I found it doesn't make very much difference in performance, but some services do affect (negatively) security. Philip Philip
