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Posted: May 26, 2000 Written By: Keith "Farrel" McClellan Services Continued... Alerter -- This service handles administrative alerts, such as ones that are sent out over a network when system failures occur. Unless you are connected to a network and have a network administrator, it is likely that you can set this service to manual. Clipbook Server -- This service allows other users over your network to view your clipbook. It is strongly recommended that you set this service to manual and use another program for distributing information over your network. Computer Browser -- This service controls network neighborhood and some other related networking functions. Unless you are not on a LAN at all, I would advice leaving this set to Automatic. Event Log -- Pretty self explanatory, this service controls your... event logs! Unless you could care less about being able to figure out what's wrong with your system, I'd recommend leaving this one set to Automatic. Messenger -- Sends and receives messages over a network. If you disabled Alerter, you can safely set this one to Manual. Net Logon -- Handles certain network security features such as login information. You are most likely going to want to set this to Manual. Network DDE and Network DDE DSDM -- these two services handle DDE (dynamic data exchange). Unless you collaborate using Office over your network, you will probably want to se this to Manual. Note: that is different from using Office in a normal business setting -- if you need DDE, you'll know. NT LM Security Support -- Provides security over a few types of NT networking applications. It is recommended that you set this to manual. Plug and Play -- Enables Win9x-like Plug and Play support to Win2k. Set this to automatic unless you really love messing with internal system registers. Protected Storage -- this handles secure information like encrypted credit card numbers and the like. Unless you don't store any private information on your computer, leave this set to automatic. RPC Services -- There are two of these, and they handle RCP name calls. I am really not sure which networking programs use these services, but most likely you won't suffer by setting these to manual. If you find that they are starting up on you anyway, you can set them to automatic. Server -- This manages file and print services over your network. Unless you aren't on a network, you should probably leave this set to automatic. Spooler -- This manages your printers. Unless you don't have a printer connected to your computer at all, you will want to set this to automatic. Task Scheduler -- This schedules weekly defrags and the like. Unless you are too lazy to start that kind of stuff up on your own, you can probably set this one to Manual. Uninterruptible Power Supply -- This service manages your UPS -- if you don't have one, set it to manual or disable it entirely. |
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