Disabling Window Processes
- Thread starter sanjuro
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Yep, turn off unnecessary services. You can speed things up, save some resources, and remove a few vulnerabilities.
http://www.jasonn.com/turning_off_unnecessary_services_on_windows_xp
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10165_7-5554402-1.html
http://techrepublic.com.com/2422-14075_11-199289.html
http://www.jasonn.com/turning_off_unnecessary_services_on_windows_xp
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10165_7-5554402-1.html
http://techrepublic.com.com/2422-14075_11-199289.html
msconfig...or Windows Defender.
But msconfig is fun...it's like pulling wires out of a timebomb!
But msconfig is fun...it's like pulling wires out of a timebomb!
I like Spybot's SD Resident app. You have to explicitly allow a BS process for one to get in...
This is rather like someone removing random components from their engine to see if it runs better. See if you can find the oil pump.
Not really. There are tons of stupid apps that throw $hit into the startup for one dumb reason or another. Like Yahoo! messenger. I don't let it...
mine went boom at one point...
It was already installed, but you disabled it. It's not a resource hog inasmuch as I know.
It's not.
I've spent the last ~10 years of my life "exploring" Linux... and he needs to clean that $hit up! Bunch of goddam GUI $hit mucking up that system.
only 10??
and to be fair, i've found elink/lynx totally lacking in using any modern-ish web page. something about javascript and java never quite working correctly that just puts me off......
in the old days i'd have agreed with you about the dominance of consoles----> however, with the speeds of todays machines that argument is mostly moot.
why not have desktop enviroment AND have a terminal open?
whatever though---we should talk shop, if you've been using for 10 years i'd love to hear what you've been up to with it and what you use it for!
pm me
and to be fair, i've found elink/lynx totally lacking in using any modern-ish web page. something about javascript and java never quite working correctly that just puts me off......
in the old days i'd have agreed with you about the dominance of consoles----> however, with the speeds of todays machines that argument is mostly moot.
why not have desktop enviroment AND have a terminal open?
whatever though---we should talk shop, if you've been using for 10 years i'd love to hear what you've been up to with it and what you use it for!
pm me
I've been administering it for 10 years. And Windows is my preferred platform with which to administer GUI-less *nix machines.
oh please.
it was only cool to bash X years ago when X really sucked.
these days it's just posing, plain and simple.
and using windows to administer unix??? that is blasphemy!! i can accept the bastardized bsd known as osx, or linux...but to use the enemy? i had this job where they wanted me to run windows. that lasted about 3 hours before i had redhat installed.
and for all you haters of xfree---compare the current desktop to what was available in redhat 5.2.
it was only cool to bash X years ago when X really sucked.
these days it's just posing, plain and simple.
and using windows to administer unix??? that is blasphemy!! i can accept the bastardized bsd known as osx, or linux...but to use the enemy? i had this job where they wanted me to run windows. that lasted about 3 hours before i had redhat installed.
and for all you haters of xfree---compare the current desktop to what was available in redhat 5.2.
Oh quit your frothing.
Like I said... I use Windows with PuTTY to actually administer *nix systems. I've not got any hangups with Windows to be completely frank. It works fine...
Edit - I'm using an XP laptop AS WE SPEAK to administer a Solaris server... that isn't running any GUI.
no GUI on solaris?
i haven't used solaris since the days of the sparc 2 (with a then blazing fast 75Mhz processor and 64 Mb of ram!)....and back then it was impossible to remove without corrupting the os integrity.
and for the desktop args...
a console is awesome for system admin/engineering, in fact i am using an hp insight console attached to a centos machine as i type from osx.
and if i were simply doing admin stuff--there is no way i would ever need to have a GUI....
however, and admin's role is not as simple as that. and sure, i could program everything i do in VI like a sucker....or i can make it a lot faster using and ide like pulse and cut production time in half (at least).
i guess i just don't understand the argument that GUI sucks these days, when i look back on the advances that first xfree made and now freedesktop the console argument makes no sense. unix has evolved from strictly a server os to a solid and robust desktop system.
if anyone here that complains about GUI can explain to me how they enabled java in their text based browser then i'll be impressed and accept that argument. otherwise it's just posing as an old school hacker.
and windows---why bother? linux has a great terminal already shipped with the o/s. if you need it for exchange server....try evolution, works awesome for me
i haven't used solaris since the days of the sparc 2 (with a then blazing fast 75Mhz processor and 64 Mb of ram!)....and back then it was impossible to remove without corrupting the os integrity.
and for the desktop args...
a console is awesome for system admin/engineering, in fact i am using an hp insight console attached to a centos machine as i type from osx.
and if i were simply doing admin stuff--there is no way i would ever need to have a GUI....
however, and admin's role is not as simple as that. and sure, i could program everything i do in VI like a sucker....or i can make it a lot faster using and ide like pulse and cut production time in half (at least).
i guess i just don't understand the argument that GUI sucks these days, when i look back on the advances that first xfree made and now freedesktop the console argument makes no sense. unix has evolved from strictly a server os to a solid and robust desktop system.
if anyone here that complains about GUI can explain to me how they enabled java in their text based browser then i'll be impressed and accept that argument. otherwise it's just posing as an old school hacker.
and windows---why bother? linux has a great terminal already shipped with the o/s. if you need it for exchange server....try evolution, works awesome for me
you're a fag. emacs-shell forevah!
hmm--i must have missed that shell, maybe i had balls over my eyes.
but what is an emacs-shell?
last i checked, emacs was a 20 year old ****ty and complicated psuedo-ide and which shell are you referring to?
No GUI. It's nice.
Ummm... no. I use Windows because the company I'm contracting to gave it to me. And it works fine. And on my home PC it works fine there too.
*nix is better without a GUI.
YMMV.
yeah, i used expect for that too until the i set up the ldap servers and became proficient enough in C to run things suid (before having the sudoers file work across a domain). much easier than having plain text passwords sitting around for expect to process!
and really, emacs was never great.
i purposely used pico back in the day since i was so sick of emacs and it's stupidity. these days, VI is so much better until you get into 4th gen languages then the ide's take over and rule ass.
and a shell?? all i gotta say is zsh 4 life!
true dat...No GUI. It's nice.
Ummm... no. I use Windows because the company I'm contracting to gave it to me. And it works fine. And on my home PC it works fine there too.
*nix is better without a GUI.
YMMV.
but i'm willing to bet that *nix will perform just as well with or without a GUI for most typical uses.
and my big aversion to using windows, bill gates and all that trash aside, is this:No GUI. It's nice.
Ummm... no. I use Windows because the company I'm contracting to gave it to me. And it works fine. And on my home PC it works fine there too.
*nix is better without a GUI.
YMMV.
their filesystem makes no sense whatsoever!
can you explain to me why a floppy is the "a" drive and hd0 is called "c"???
I try not to let it bother me.
I only use it for the games.Says the Ubuntu dork.
Gave him his very first bottle just the other night. (pumped mama juice only, no formula)Whatchoo doin'? Feedin' a baby?
He's gettin fat.
Those weren't boobs, the dog has cancer. Next time turn on the light.
Hahaha!
My dumb ass boss thought Pico was great until he edited /etc/passwd. Did you know there is a 1000 line buffer in Pico? And we had 3000 accounts.
It took him all day to restore those accounts.
Emacs, in its day, was customizable and used text-graphics extremely well. There is a thousand programming modes and emacs-shell made compiling programs a breeze.
Most people who were unable or unwilling to learn lisp, of course, struggled with emacs.
There is one other thing to consider: Richard Stallman is a god.
dog?? man, i thought your mom just had a moustache!
sanjuro, h8r----awesome thread, but time for me to give it a rest, since we've gone WAAAAY off-topic! probably we should open a new thread or maybe even a new forum called "talk trash (somtimes) about unix"!
actually, maybe that's not a bad idea---to start a new forum dedicated to linux to post tips/tricks, and so the linux rookies here can post their questions/problems etc.
whatever though---take it sleazy guys!
sanjuro, h8r----awesome thread, but time for me to give it a rest, since we've gone WAAAAY off-topic! probably we should open a new thread or maybe even a new forum called "talk trash (somtimes) about unix"!
actually, maybe that's not a bad idea---to start a new forum dedicated to linux to post tips/tricks, and so the linux rookies here can post their questions/problems etc.
whatever though---take it sleazy guys!