Thinkpads Forum

Hi,
I have an old Thinkpad where I installed the latest System Update.

The problem is that 2 o 3 services are running all the time and consuming RAM.

I wanted to know if its ok to put these services in Manual from services.msc :
- System Update
- TVT Scheduler

I tested and nothing seems to be wrong, just wanted to confirm.

Thanks!
Oliver

Definately not a problem at all.

Many thanks!
Is there any other service I can put it to manual startup?

Regards,
Oliver

If you google Black Viper, he gives a good breakdown of the services you can tweak.

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

Thanks Kyocera,
great site.

I was looking more info regarding the Thinkvantage services, like the Thinkvantage PM, or the Backup service, which I don't use.

Oliver

Kyocera wrote:If you google Black Viper, he gives a good breakdown of the services you can tweak.

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

You can remove a lot of the sofware that comes with the factory image. I know somewhere around in one of more threads are lists of the softwares, their uses, and opionions on wether you do or don't need it. I really don't use much of the thinkvantage stuff, but it's kind of up to you wether you do or don't absolutely need it.

Thinkvantage PM, or the Backup service

These two I never use, if I backup it's with acronis, password manager? I have one password, if I can't manage that I should not own a computer.

Kyocera wrote:I really don't use much of the thinkvantage stuff, but it's kind of up to you wether you do or don't absolutely need it.

Same here. I've deleted almost all of ThinkVantage apps (except PowerManager and Fingerprint software), and everything runs the same (and booting is faster) it removed like 15-20 services, and tweaked some of XP's (for better security), now i have 35 running (with AV, firewall and anti-spyware software)....

Also only using the Powermanager and Fingerprint stuff and have a pretty fast startup after some other tweaking from the Blackviper and other websites.