July, 2005

A Windows service provides functionality to the operating system and user accounts regardless of whether anyone is logged into a system. Windows XP comes with around four dozen services enabled by default, including ones that many people consider superfluous...

A few months ago I began experiencing periodic system freezes of about a second where even my mouse would pause during a movement. Needless to say, this became very annoying very quickly. A few minutes with Process Explorer, however, and I not only determined...