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A background service is a program that is running invisibly to the user and can or cannot be essential to the operating system to work properly. Usually a service program is set to to start automatically at boot time, this behavior is controlled and can be altered by viewing the service list or by running the System Configuration utility.

We can achieve this by pressing the windows key + r or by clicking start, run. A small windows appears and we type msconfig (with or without the ending .exe) and Ok or Enter. This opens the System Configuration utility (MSconfig).
Otherwise, by typing services.msc we start the services manager listing all the available services on our machine with a brief description and the startup type and status.

As mentioned above, there are services that must not be disabled, windows would not behave correctly, on the other hand other services can safely be stopped and set to not start automatically. (more…)

Can XP go faster, Imean, is there any real tweak that really works, here’s some of the one I found to improve performances. Give’em a try.

Some of the working tweaks you can do to your Windows XP can really be a blessing to your system’s speed. As a disclaimer do the following tweaks at your own risk, however they were all tested and are in use by many users. (more…)