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• What Slows Down My Computer On Bootup?
• Web Servers and Firewall Zones
• How to Use Windows XP "System Restore"
• Computer Slow? Optimize It With The Right Tools
• How To Prevent Unwanted Windows Programs From Loading At System Startup
• 10 Best Hidden Windows Features/ XP Secrets/ XP Little Know Features
• Why You Need To Clean Your Windows Registry?
• Did I Hear You Say, Mama, Help Me! I Lost My Websites!
• 10 Web Site Backup Essentials That You Should Live By
• Data-Recovery: What You Need
• Business Needs vs. Network Performance: Critical Challenges Facing Network Managers

• What in the heck is a Windows Service anyway?
• How are services and programs different since some programs I use, like spyware protection software, begin running as soon as I boot up my computer?
• Why should I care about my Windows Services if I never see them?
• Should I change my services from the default for security or performance sake?
• Which Windows Services are unneccessary?
• How do I access my Windows Services?
• What do all of the heading columns mean in the services control panel?
• How do I find specific information about each individual service?
• What do the values under the General tab of the service properties dialog mean?
• What do the values under the Log On tab of the service properties dialog mean?
• What do the values under the Recovery tab of the service properties dialog mean?
• What do the values under the Dependencies tab of the service properties dialog mean?
• How do I disable a service that Windows has turned on by default?
• What are differences among the various startup types: Automatic, Manual, and Disabled?
• What should I do if my services keep crashing?
• Why do I see svchost.exe show up so often as the executable file name for multiple services?
• How do I manually control my Windows Services outside of the Services Control Panel?
• What if I uninstall a Windows Service-based application, but it still shows up in the Services Control Panel?

• A Index Page - Alerter, Application Layer Gateway Service, Application Management, ASP.NET State Service, Automatic Updates
• B Index Page - Background Intelligent Transfer Service, Boot Information Negotiation Layer (BINL)
• C Index Page - Certificate Services, Client Service for NetWare, Clipbook, Cluster Service, COM+ Event System, COM+ System Application, Computer Browser, Cryptographic Service
• D Index Page - DHCP Client, DHCP Server, Distributed File System (DFS), Distributed Link Tracking Client, Distributed Link Tracking Server, Distributed Transaction Coordinator, DNS Client, DNS Server
• E Index Page - Error Reporting Service, Event Log
• F Index Page - Fast User Switching Compatability, Fax Services, File Replication, File Server for Macintosh, FTP Publishing Service
• G Index Page - Gateway Services for Netware
• H Index Page - Help and Support, HTTP SSL Service, Human Interface Device Access Service
• I Index Page - IAS Jet Database Access Service, IIS Admin Service, IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service, Indexing Service, Infrared Monitor, Internet Authentication Service, Internet Connection Firewall (ICF)/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS), Intersite Messaging, IPSec Services, IPSec Policy Agent, Ipv6 Helper Service
• J Index Page
• K Index Page - Kerberos Key Distribution Center
• L Index Page - License Logging, Logical Disk Manager, Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service
• M Index Page - Machine Debug Manager Service, Message Queuing, Message Queuing Down Level Clients Support, Message Queuing Triggers, Messenger, Microsoft POP3 Service, Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider, MSSQL$UDDI, MSSQLServerADHelper
• N Index Page - Net Logon, NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing, Network Connections, Network DDE, Network DDE DSDM, Network Location Awareness (NLA), Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), NT LM Security Support Provider
• O Index Page - Online Presentation Broadcast
• P Index Page - Performance Logs and Alerts, Plug and Play, Portable Media Serial Number, Print Server for Macintosh, Print Spooler, Process Control Service, Protected Storage
• Q Index Page - QoS Admission Control (RSVP), QoS RSVP
• R Index Page - Remote Access Auto Connection Manager, Remote Access Connection Manager, Remote Administration Service, Remote Desktop Help Session Manager, Remote Installation Services, Remote Procedure Call (RPC), Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator, Remote Registry, Remote Server Manager, Remote Storage Engine, Remote Storage File, Remote Storage Media, Remote Storage Notification, Remote Storage Server, Removable Storage, Resultant Set of Policy Provider, Routing and Remote Access, RunAs Service
• S Index Page - SAP Agent, Secondary Logon, Security Accounts Manager, Server, Shell Hardware Detection, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Simple TCP/IP Services, Single Instance Storage Groveler, Site Server ILS Service, Smart Card, Smart Card Helper, SNMP, SNMP Trap Service, Special Administration Console Helper, SQLAgent$ UDDI, SSDP Discovery, Still Image Service, System Event Notification, System Restore Service
• T Index Page - Task Scheduler, TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper, TCP/IP Print Server, Telephony, Telnet, Terminal Server Licensing, Terminal Services, Terminal Services Licensing, Terminal Services Session Directory, Themes, Trivial FTP Daemon
• U Index Page - Uninterruptible Power Supply, Universal Plug and Play Device Host, Upload Manager, Utility Manager
• V Index Page - Virtual Disk Service, Volume Shadow Copy, Volume Snapshot
• W Index Page - WebClient, Web Element Manager, Windows Audio, Windows Image Acquisition (WIA), Windows Installer, Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), Windows Management Instrumentation, Windows Management Instrumentation Driver Extensions, Windows Media Monitor Service, Windows Media Program Service, Windows Media Services, Windows Media Station Service, Windows Media Unicast Service, Windows System Resource Manager, Windows Time, WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service, Wireless Configuration, Wireless Zero Configuration, WMI Performance Adapter, Workstation, World Wide Web Publishing Service
• X Index Page
• Y Index Page
• Z Index Page

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