Optimize your XP Pro system by tweaking service manager? Remove unnecessary services!

This is important. You don't know how many services are started by your service manager everytime you boot your system. There is a very strong likelihood that some of these services are never of any use to you and as such you never directly or indirectly use them. If so, why delay the boot time and also degrade the system performance for no reason ! Stop this services from starting automatically. Here is How-to ! Open service manager by going to START-RUN and entering services.msc. Now in the right pane, you would see a list of services some of them would be started and others don't. Also they could be set to any of three status of start mode. "Manual", "automatic" and "disabled". If you double Click on any of these you would see detailed info on each of these. You have an option of starting or stopping the services running on your computer. If you are typical desktop user like most of us, it might be safe to disable and stop following services. But still do understand it before you do it. Also some of those listed below may not be available for you as well.
1. Portable Media Serial Number
2. DHCP Client
3. Distributed Link Tracking Client (Most likely you're not connected to a Windows 2000 domain)
4. DNS Client (Again you're not connecting to a specific DNS server on your local network most of times)
5. FTP Publishing Service (If you don't want your system to act as an FTP server. I don’t!)
6. IIS Admin Service (You computer may not be a WWW server and as such no need for this service)
7. IPSEC Policy Agent (disable it if you're not connected to a Windows 2000 domain)
8. Messenger (same reason...you may not be connected to a Windows 2000 domain)
9. Remote Registry Service (Typically you don't remotely access the Registry of other systems)
10. RIP Service (If you are a typical home user, you don't need your system to act as a router)
11. Run As Service (This can also go since most likely you don't use any applications that run as an alias)
12. World Wide Web Publishing Service (If you are a not into web publishing business,You don't need this as well).