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I'm not claiming to be a genius, but the majority of my life has been computers. I work with them daily and I'm also employed as a pc technician. I often have to fix issues that are caused by users screwing up their services. I've had to fix SSL and HTTPS issues that was caused by services being disabled. Let's analyze the services listed above. Disabling this will stop your iPod, Rio, Creative brand and many others to no longer be able to communicate or transfer your music or videos. Leave this one alone (Home: Automatic. Pro: Manual). This will break prefetching, will helps to speed up your computer and help programs (even Windows itself) load faster. Disabling this will also stop many anti-virus, backups, defrag utilities, etc. softwares from being able to update or function properly, as they add a small task into the Task Scheduler. It's best to leave this service set to Automatic Disabling this will stop Windows and your computer from communicating with your UPS. If you don't have one it won't matter because this service is set to Manual. If you want to SAFELY disable Automatic Updates, right click My Computer > Properties > Automatic Updates. Simply set it to "Turn off Automatic Updates". Do not disable this service, because if it's not doig anything it is idle and takes up no resources. Not available on XP Home, as of SP2 it's disabled. So no need to even mess with it. If you're on anythnig before SP2 simply update to SP2. This service is also needed for 802.1x which can be used with a wired connection. When this is disabled, you won't get the authentication tab in the network connection properties. Should you ever install a wireless card, this will function very well. If you never use it, this service will be idle and take up no resources. Need any other service myths debunked? BlackViper and the other guides are pure idiocy. Several years ago my best friend got a Windows XP Home machine and wanted to do the entire BlackViper guide. So we did, and I witnessed just how broken a machine is if you follow those kinds of guides. He could barely use Internet, WMP failed to work without ten errors. A majority of the websites we visited would not load. To me, BlackViper is as much an idiot as Steven Gibson of GRC. "Unplug & Pray", etc. The only good thing he ever made was SpinRite. In fact, Gibson is a joke to the tech community. You have one thing right though. People can do what they want with their computers, even if it's the wrong thing to do. I don't complain much because it's those tweakers and many others that help me earn my paycheck.

Untrue. Compression and decompression depends on disk space, RAM and other items. I've also not had a virus or any form of malware for over 9 years. The ones I did have, I knew of or they were false positives. "Tweaking" should be avoided completely. I at one time thought tweaking services was good, but I found issues with it. Things I'd want to install wouldn't work because I disabled the service(s) needed. I reset all of my services to default, as they are supposed to be. I also let Windows manage my pagefile. My system works better and faster without any tweaking than with it. Anything a person thinks they know about tweaking is wrong. Become or learn from a real pc technician and you will see that tweaking is a terrible thing. But then again, that should be common sense.

You also missed the part of the test where he based his statistics on many other things aside from gaming benchmark programs File Compression & File Decompression in MB/s File Encryption & Virus Scanning in MB/s Grammar Check in KB/s

The problem with people disabling services is that when they go to install a new software or hardware that may/is dependent on a certain service you disabled, it will complain or not install. It's especially a pain in the ass when people disable their services, then bring their machines into the shop talking about something not installing or function properly when it's because they disabled services follow those idiot's guides to disabling services. Idle services take up no resources at all. So disabling all those idle services isn't changing a thing. If you knew what you (not you as in YOU, but you as in anyone) were doing, you'd know not to disable services at all. Also, disabling idle services offers zero performance gain. Idle services take no RAM or CPU power at all. I'd love to quote the MSDN article, but I can't find it at the moment. The basic summary is that disabling a service that wasn't doing anything frees absolutely no resources. You should never disable the error reporting service either. Error reporting allows the end-user to obtain information after "serious error" crash dumps (STOP errors/BSoDs). It also provides the user with feedback if an issue has already been resolved. Example: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=894391 I had submitted an error report about this crash one day, and got no response back. The problem kept happening, and on multiple computers, so a few days later, I submitted it again, but this time, error reporting took me to a page stating that the cause was unknown but it research was in progress. Four days later, I submitted it again, and it took me to a page with the patch and the error never happened again. There will be a program just to undo all the bull**** that users are doing to their systems these days, including disabling what they think are "unused" services. If there weren't used, why would they exist? If they were unused, then they would be idle, and not taking up any resources at all. When the time comes to use the service, it will work fine, and all will be well. 6 months later, a program attempts to use a service that you've disabled because you think you are better than your OS, and you get a generic error: "The RPC server is unavailable". Now you think that the program you're using is a piece of crap, or Windows is a piece of crap, and you format/reinstall, and it works for a while... until you do your "tweaking" routine again. In summary, if you continue to disable "unused" services, and I meet you on the street, I should punch you right there in the center of your face. 100% Accurate Tweaking Guide. In fact, it's the only one you should ever listen to. My bottom line is I really hate stupid people. As far as I'm concerned, people who screw with their services fall into that category; because they obviously are lacking the intelligence to leave the services well enough alone.

Service tweaks debunked Also on MSFN.org: Stop services permanently

Do not disable any services.

It's a documentary, "How to give a breast exam in the back seat of a cat while she's blindfolded".

Does she fetch a beer and your favorite dirty magazine too?

I see MP has trained more than his K9 partner to carry the mail to him.

I'll take a stab at it. "MP_handler's Last Date"? :lol:

Y'arrr! Thar be no pirating here matey! :pirate:

Looks like your wife had fun

Howdy

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So that's the best way to get a pussy wet!

I heard this isn't secret, but it is buggy.

There actually is supposed to be a default avatar, but it never displays properly. This works for 2.1.x. I am not sure that it can be done for a version so out-dated, but be sure to back up your TOPICS.PHP before you try: Open sources>action_public>topics.php. Find: function parse_member( $member=array() ) { $member['avatar'] = $this->ipsclass->get_avatar( $member['avatar_location'], $this->ipsclass->member['view_avs'], $member['avatar_size'], $member['avatar_type'] ); Directly beneath that, add: // Start default avatar hack if($member['avatar']=='') { $member['avatar']="<img src=\"style_images/<#IMG_DIR#>/noavatar.gif\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\">";} // End default avatar hack Save and upload topics.php Now upload your chosen graphic to the skin images folder(s). This should be done for each skin that you use, and it has to be called noavatar.gif. If your want a different size than 64 sq., you can change the dimensions in the code. If you want a different default for each skin, then make one for each image set. Or you can make it a static location/size. Here's one I found that they used to use. But you surely could customize it. I know I'm going to make one for Lunarsoft.net as an optimized png.

Yeah, he does look like Indy.

They made a porn version of "When Tarzan met Jane"?

/cheer! Ty sir! Now Wolf can bug you there too

Are you using GD1 or 2?

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Here, lemme hold that for ya.

Serenity. Based on Firefly.

Under... Enable Script/Bot Flood Control? Forces users to input a random code when registering and changing email address, etc to prevent bot's from spamming the forms. Did you set it to Advanced?