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Old 30-07-2008, 01:32 PM   #93 (permalink)
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Re: MS tricks die-hard XP users into liking Vista

Originally Posted by rickworden View Post
Fair point dangel - but I've got so much software that if I load up the default hardware profile I still get a load of services that seem to slow down boot up. So to disable manually on the fly would take some time. Maybe the difference isn't that much! - I just don't like the fact that every software programmer thinks that as soon as you switch on your PC their application must be running!
Agreed, so just do what I have done for the last decade, disable them by default, and only start as-needed.

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