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David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:45:53 -0800
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On 24 Nov 2005 at 20:52, David Jonathan Justman wrote:

> I'm running Windows 2000 Pro.
>
> I have many services which are useless to me, such as the smart card
> reading service and the telnet service, set to "manual".  Will I
> improve my system's performance by setting them to "disable"?
>
> Thanks.
> David.

  Not significantly.  "Manual" means the service won't actually start
running unless the user does something to cause that, and it's going to use
the same tiny sliver of resources to be listed "disabled" as it does
"manual".

David Gillett

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