MEDIA PLAYER SPYING ON YOU

Stellios · 18 May 2006 at 17:25

KizZ said:
Just dont use WMP! Use Winamp

Mediamonkey to be honest

Firegod · 18 May 2006 at 17:37

markysparky said:
Wow, only 20 services let me know what services you have running/disabled etc

http://www.dead-eye.net/WinXP Services.htm

Just read through that and decide.

If you click the name in the table it takes you to a page which describes what it does, etc.

^ But there you go. You could probably get away with a few others in there, such as Windows Image Acquisition (if you don't have a scanner), Sygate Firewall if you just run the Windows one. You may see that Print Spooler isn't there and everytime I need to print I just start the service. No big deal, as I don't print that much stuff.

The rest are all stopped.

Jimbo Mahoney · 18 May 2006 at 19:06

On my main (gaming) rig:

I wouldn't normally have that damn Belkin Wireless, but I'm living in a temporary flat...

Firegod · 18 May 2006 at 19:26

Jimbo Mahoney said:
On my main (gaming) rig:

I wouldn't normally have that damn Belkin Wireless, but I'm living in a temporary flat...

Can you not get rid of the TCP/IP Netbios helper one mate?

ShakenNstirred · 18 May 2006 at 19:50

makes me laugh the amount of times you read stuff like this

Jimbo Mahoney · 18 May 2006 at 20:00

Firegod said:
Can you not get rid of the TCP/IP Netbios helper one mate?

Maybe, but I had some problems once when trying to connect to another computer by name rather than IP address. Turned out to be this service.

Firegod · 18 May 2006 at 20:06

Jimbo Mahoney said:
Maybe, but I had some problems once when trying to connect to another computer by name rather than IP address. Turned out to be this service.

Ahh fair enough

I seem to recall having trouble using Active Directory after disabling this one as well.

FreeStream · 18 May 2006 at 20:19

Ah, all amateurs!! I have 13, should be 12 but im using a 350D on the PC.

http://www.thunder-keep.co.uk/site/services.JPG