I spend quite some time tweaking my Windows XP Professional to optimise it’s performance and I’m so glad to say that my laptop is running a lot faster than before. :heart: This is a good guide of processes that is running on the system and after surfing a lot of different sites to get the same idea that that particular process is totally not necessary on my system, I disabled a few of them, about 4 or 5? And it free up quite a bit of my RAM (about 80 to 100+MB). Considering the fact that my laptop only has 503MB of memory available, it’s a pretty big improvement. :hehe: I also delete away a few startup items which are not needed so decrease booting time. If your laptop or desktop is lagging, I highly suggest you take a look at that guide. A few things I disabled and after which I tested my system and it was still running smoothly (free from errors and application crashing etc.) are:
- Alerter
- Error Reporting Service
- Indexing Service
- Portable Media Serial Number (Set to manual)
- Remote Registry Service
- Telnet
- WebClient
They certainly took up a lot of unnecessary memory so I hope this helps someone. 
22 November, 2006 at 6:07 pm
i think i’ll tweak my windows xp too.. it’s been getting buggy, slow and crashing of late :cry:
hope everything going on round you is smooth and okay (:
take care! *hugs*
21 November, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Pls update
6 November, 2006 at 7:33 pm
Reply to Kimmie
So far, it’s going pretty well for me and I have only made changes to things I have double and triple and check goodness knows how many times to ensure that they are not needed at all so thanks for the concern.
5 November, 2006 at 11:44 pm
Hmm… I hope this works out for you over the long run… I read through the site, clicking here and there. I found some things in it to be not true. For example, XP Home not coming with telnet is false. I’m not so sure I trust this page.