I'm playing with MSCONFIG in Win2K, and want to know if anyone has dared disable all services, including MICROSOFT services, and booted successfully? I have followed the tweak guidelines for a pre-game clean boot, and for this we are advised to check the "Hide all Microsoft services" box, then hit the disable all, thereby killing the loading of only all non-MS services.??Noel

http://www.blackviper.com/WIN2K/servicecfg.htm

I tried it and had to reboot in safe mode to clear it up. Even the black viper "gamer" settings screw my unit up. I bought a new hard drive, Western 80 gig ata 133, and set up a new, clean version of XP. Turned off all services to "gamer " level accoriding to BlackViper,loaded a clean install of FS9, dx9b, fresh 4.1 cat ATI drivers, Nothing else on the drive. I got the sim running and found no differance in frame rates or stutters than my full modifed version of FS9. I mean nothing. I run Ultim. traffic, as2004, and various payware aircraft, Chris Willias's clouds, Etc...Altho I must say I've got 1 gig of ddr 400 and a Atholon 2200 overclocked to 1940, A radon 9800 pro all on a AsusA87x board. It may be the extra memory that keeps me running the same, but I cant see a differance. I think Ill keep the anti virus running.Happy LandingsScott

I don't use any specific BV profile to configure my XP install. I studied his explanation of each service, and then set each to what I wanted.If memory serves me I believe XP Home (as an example) installs with something like 32-35 services running. After reconifguring my system I'm running 19 at desktop, and this includes my AV program.Hope this helps,

Greetings Noel,I tried this with XP. Here is my earlier post on it: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...id=174961&page=The multi-boot/OS app that I was using it outlined here: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...&mesg_id=174088-Todd

Thanks much for your replys. I think I will hold off on this. With the "Hide all MS service" box checked, I am down to 22 processes, and that seems pretty good. I do run Powerstrip, which is included in the 22.I did find Catalyst 4.1 totally hosed performance in TW2004, and when going back to 3.7s, I found FS to be way way smoother, even with complex birds.Noel

>I'm playing with MSCONFIG in Win2K, and want to know if>anyone has dared disable all services, including MICROSOFT>services, and booted successfully?NoelI have followed precisely the instructions in this article from Microsoft's knowledge base and have had no problems at all.http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;331796Bear in mind, FWIW, that I have a PC dedicated to flying FS2004 and nothing else, I found a modest increase in fluidity in areas of extremely dense clouds, complex airports etc.System specs:Intel P4 3.2 Ghz processor hyperthreadingIntel D865GBF 800 FSB motherboard1 Mb Kingston PC3200/DDR 400 RAMATI Radeon 9800XT video cardSound Blaster Audugy 2 sound card200 Gb Maxtor hard disk17" LG Electronics LCD screenWIndows XP ProDavid

There's some you'd better not disable.Most network related stuff for example, if you disable those you won't get on the net anymore.

Hi Noel,If you have not already done so, you might care to look at:http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...d=175081&page=2Might give you a few ideas. I managed to get down to 19 Services running with FS9. This included retaining the ability to access the net during flight. I'm still debating whether to allow Norton Antivirus to run concurrently - probably not much of a risk to leave it stopped during a simming session if all you are doing is downloading weather periodically.Mike

Mike: I would not, if I were you, disable Norton AV if you are leaving net access up during FS sessions. This may be akin to asking for trouble.

quote: "I would not, if I were you, disable Norton AV if you are leaving net access up during FS sessions. This may be akin to asking for trouble."Why?Regards,

Edit for double post (always trigger happy in the morning...)Regards,

Vassilis: 1) "Items" can be rather easily pushed to your pc if internet access is up, and, 2) Someone can take over the real-time weather site and the next time fs9 grabs weather, it grabs a virus instead. Although relatively unlikely, I guess I usually choose the safer route. Basically, if your computer is open to the world, anti-virus should be running. The doctor tells me it's only a matter of days now before the anti-paranoia medicine will kick in:).

Sj, thanks for the answer. No2 I can understand (in an anti-MS-conspiracy sort of way...), as for no.1 I think that's what firewalls are there for. To illustrate, I had removed the blaster virus, applied the relevant patches etc. and still whenever I forgot to enable my firewall, while the AV was on, I would have the nasty RPC reboot every single time. It has never happened with the firewall activated though...Plus, on what concerns more personalised attacks, I posses the ultimate detterent; Dynamic IP over 33.600 PSTN which usually dies every other hour at best :-samurai . I think that hackers wouldn't even bother :-violin Regards,

Any of you that want to get rid of unneeded services, might look this site over. Its mainly for spyware, but throught out has usefull info on needed services. Found a lot of entries I didnt need. Smoothed things up a bit.Farmer