[John Prophet]

go here www.blkviper.com and check out his "xp services configurations"...xp comes with all sorts of "junk" services running that u dont need...such as "remote desktop help session manager" "portable media serial number" "alerter" "messenger" and loads of other stuff....turning them off saves some resources and frees up some cpu cycles.

I use his "safe" configuration on all my new builds...(except I leave on 'system restore'

JP