Does disabling services in one XP account affect another account?

0verblood

Hi, I'm trying to strip the services in XP down to the bare bones for gaming, I was just wondering, does this turn off all the services in the other user accounts?

cookie1977

yes it does
have a look here: http://blackviper.com/
this guy's quite well known for his work on services (need and dont need). Under popular content he descibes whats good and bad to disable and go's through a number of options life safe to disable and "barebones"

seanybiker

Intersring. Ill have a gander meself. Cheers for link.

cookie1977

No problem. Make sure you record what services you've changed so that if something stops working you can quickly go back and make a change. It can drive you mad if you forget what services change and your wifi stops working or something else. Do screen grabs to record changes you make.

seanybiker

I'm not that patient to be taking screen grabs lol.

cookie1977

You might regret it if not :P

0verblood

At least write what you've changed down in notebook or something, my wireless started acting funny - exactly what cookie said, so I went to the list I had written and restarted one by one until it started working again.

The reason I'm asking about how this affects other users is that I want to have a clean Admin account in case anything goes wrong. Is this really impossible? There's absolutely no way to have a separate services profile?

cookie1977

0verblood wrote: »

At least write what you've changed down in notebook or something, my wireless started acting funny - exactly what cookie said, so I went to the list I had written and restarted one by one until it started working again.

The reason I'm asking about how this affects other users is that I want to have a clean Admin account in case anything goes wrong. Is this really impossible? There's absolutely no way to have a separate services profile?

I know what you mean. And it always happens when you're in a rush so you re enable everything. AAaggghhh.

Re the clean admin account I dont think this is possible. But i stand to be corrected.

Actually it might be. I dont have multiple accounts on my system but in the service tab you're editing under Log On. Can you select which user the service opens if with what ever setting you choose?

brianwalshcork

Services are system wide, so are independent of the logged on user.

You could create a .bat file to stop the services under your gamer login, and either execute it manually, or put it in the startup group of the gamer profile.

The bat file would contain a series of NET STOP commands, e.g.:

NET STOP "PRINT SPOOLER"


You could also create a corresponding BAT file to restart the services after you finished playing your games.

0verblood

Thanks for the help guys I'll investigate these suggestions a bit more.