Cheers alec, i never mess with the boot.ini file either, i guess must have selected origonal by accident.
That's OK - I cannot remember WHO said it, but it was a FAMOUS "brainiac" type:
"Genius is making mistakes. 1000's of them, & faster than others do, until you hit the RIGHT answers"
I definitely ascribe to THAT one. More than just on computers. Still, never hurts to ask others their views on things, but it is a matter of whether it applies to YOU, & how YOU USE YOUR MACHINE, really... & if it applies to that.
services and taskmanager screens attached. Thanks again.
Ok then... here we go (DONE):
USING SERVICES.MSC, right-click on these processes & using the PROPERTIES submenu popup menu item, stop them (don't alter startup types until you KNOW which you need, & do NOT need - there is a DEPENDENCIES tab in services.msc right click on processes properties page, it CAN help you understand how some of them "interrelate with one another" too, do look @ it while I edit this):
THESE YOU CAN STOP (possibly permanently, depending on what they do & IF your OS or APPS need them):
AVG Email Scanner (AVG AntiVirus needs this for email virscans)
PC Tools Spyware (PC Tools program needs this for malware scans)
Print Spooler (needed for printing/faxing)
Security Center (not sure WHAT needs this, I have not seen this one before on Win2k3 Server)
Shell Hardware Detection (Explorer.exe GUI shell starts this one up)
System Event Notification
System Restore Service (If you use RESTORATION points, you need this)
Task Scheduler (boottime XP file optimization & other processes use this for PERIODIC work)
Themes (self-explanatory - especially if you use XP's "candy-coated" lifesavers candy roll look)
Windows Audio (Multimedia apps use this start it IF you need sound)
Wireless Zero Config (wireless networking uses this)
FOR A HOME LAN, these can affect that badly (keep them enabled if you do a home LAN):
Tcp/IP NetBIOS helper (If you use Client for Microsoft Networks, you need this)
Computer Browser ("")
Server
Workstation
* To get back online, after this "radical tuning"? You will have to reactivate these services (right clicking on them to start/stop them via their properties page from the popup menu you will see), in THIS order:
STOP THESE, but: You'll need these started again after test is done, to get online again:
COM+ Event System (hold off on this one when you stop others because, stopping SOME services will restart it, do it FIRST on reactivating them though)
Windows Mgt. Instrumentation
Application Layer Gateway (needed for SOME XP Firewall setups, others not)
Network Connections (needed for SOME XP Firewall setups & manipulating local connections, others not)
Network Location Awareness (you can actually set this to MANUAL startup type)
DNS Client (you can actually set this to MANUAL startup type)
DHCP Client (needed to get online)
CryptoGraphic Services (needed for online security, remember that)
Protected Storage (needed for online security, remember that)
Windows Firewall (needed for online security, remember that)
Windows Defender (needed for online security, remember that)
(Some of these Windows Server 2003 (what I use) has, some not, but that SHOULD be the correct restart order. If they "yell" @ you? Look @ that DEPENDENCIES screen I noted earlier, & start the services other services depend on, first!)
By the way?? YOU CAN ALSO STOP EXPLORER.EXE as well & use Ctrl+Alt+Del to summon taskmgr.exe again (to get your desktop GUI shell back) using taskmgr.exe's FILE menu, RUN submenu item.
That's to restart it when done doing this test (helps a LOT, explorer.exe is one busy app & eats CPU + I/O massively).
APK
P.S.=> Ok, done... stop those using services.msc, & then, we will look @ taskmgr.exe! Once we are done THERE? Run your test!
(Try to use taskmgr.exe rightclick on ScienceMark2.exe too for CPU priority (HIGH, ABOVENORMAL LOW, NORMAL, BELOWNORMAL etc. & if you have a single core/single CPU machine? STEER CLEAR OF REALTIME))
HIGH CPU priority can be good, because that DOES help for a point or two as well
(BUT, can get 'touchy' if you are at an EXTREMELY HIGH o/c near limit of what your system will take, some apps do NOT like that either - keep that in mind!) apk
