If you do not know what Windows Services are please be careful in trying anything described below. It has long been the opinion of most savvy Windows XP users that when Windows starts up there are a lot of services running in the background that are just not necessary. The trick is in knowing which ones you can completely disable or simply change from their “Automatic” setting to “Manual”. I am only going to touch on the idea of trying these changes in this quick article. For more in depth choices and advice concerning which services are expendable so to  [ Read More ]