Darboshanski opened this issue on Jun 17, 2006 ยท 46 posts
svdl posted Tue, 20 June 2006 at 12:53 PM
I've disabled quite a few things in XP too. Wireless zero administration? Not needed when you're not on a wireless network. I also switched off the visual enhancements and reverted XP to the Win2000 look. Suits my style of working better, and there are also some performance benefits.
But I didn't remove the components from my HD. Why should I? My laptop has 40 GB, I'd save maybe 20 Mb, doesn't really matter. And my desktops have far more storage capacity.
One of my desktops runs XP as trim as I could make it: 20 processes when nothing else is running. It is the most powerful desktop I have, dedicated to rendering, and I want as many CPU cycles dedicated to rendering as possible. Same goes for memory.
My other desktop is a development rig, and runs a lot more, including web servers, database servers, index servers and the whole rigamarole. Takes a noticeable hit on performance. This will also be the machine I'll be testing Vista on (first have to get a couple of big external drives to save all my data).
I hope I can trim down Vista as much as I can trim down XP.
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