Professor Geek

My thanks to the Download Squad for bringing this to my attention. Here is a page at Techtree.com that outlines a number of ways that you can eliminate services that are running in the background and sucking up resources. Windows services are flexible and easy to configure (you can set them to automatically run, manually run, or be disabled, for example), easy to view. However, what is not intuitive is what the various services do and which ones you can safely turn off. This is where the list shines because it tells you which ones might be totally useless to you in your environment AND can be safely shut down without causing you system or network problems.

A caution: Be sure to read about each item before shutting it down. Only shut down those that don’t have any effect on your system. Still, clearing out a handful of these processes will undoubtedly speed up your system by making more memory available for other applications.

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