Turning off some of the background tasks may negatively impact your
performance in the long term. Vista does a lot of housekeeping with tasks
running at a low priority. This doesn't really impact foreground
performance. Not letting Vista do the housekeeping may degrade performance
over time. Doing the housekeeping manually means you waste time doing this
when you could be using the computer for something else. Many people don't
have the skills needed to tune up the computer manually. Note that there are
always exceptions to the rule but for the vast majority of Vista users they
are better off letting Vista do what it wants in the background. It's
similar to tuning a car. Very fast custom tuned cars are hard to keep in
tune and the tuning takes up as much time or more as actually driving the
car. For some people that little bit of time driving really fast is worth
the effort. The vast majority would rather have a reliable car that gets
them to work and back.

--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/
http://vistahelpca.blogspot.com/



"MilesAhead" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> You might want to get Process Monitor freeware from SysInternals. If
> fact there should be a SysInternalsSuite for download on most freeware
> sites and on the MS hosted home page. svchost.exe launches other
> services so to see what is hogging what resource you have to see what it
> is loading or doing etc..
>
> I have 32 bit Vista Home Premium on an HP PC that I bought in April
> 2007 and I'm still turning stuff off!!! It's just about at the level
> now where the drive only runs on for a few minutes right after I create
> a restore point. But it used to just go on by itself for 20 minutes on
> end!! Turned a bunch of services off including Windows Indexing and
> also you have to hunt down hidden scheduled tasks to see what other
> stuff you don't use but the system wants to run anyway is scheduled to
> run.
>
>
> --
> MilesAhead
>
> "How come we don't know the I.Q. of the guy who invented the test?"