Services on xp home

[alex11111]

Hi, anyone pls advise on what are the services that not required to disallow on XP home under services.msc. There are alot of services and when some of the services are disallow, the modem was prevented from surfing the internet.

Used the computer (XP home) for the following :

1) Surfing internet and printing document locally

2) Upload and download files using online upload and download services

3) Using 2 application that receive data from a server online and archive them locally on the drive

The computer was installed XP home, uses a modem router connecting to the mainboard using a ethereal cable to surf the internet and no other computers

With this spec, what are the services are not required on the XP home? Pls advise.

Tks.

Regards.
Alex

[FadeAway]

Some good information here:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm

I just disable vulnerable non-essential security related services, as my
machine has sufficient resources to handle everything else.

[Longboard]

This will help:
http://www.blackviper.com/

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

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

:)

[ErikAlbert]

Another link :
http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/WindowsXP.htm
Compare everything, maybe you find differences between experts, which is always amusing, at least for me. ;D

[WSFuser]

I use the following two guides from TweakHound:

TweakHound's Super XP Tweaking Guide (http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks6.htm) and Securing Windows XP, Section 3 (http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/security/page_3.htm)

Once in a while, one guide will suggest manual start for a service and the other will suggest disabled. So I go for disabled.

Also heres another guide if you want:

http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/winxp_services/index.shtml

[innerpeace]

Here's two more that I used along with the above suggestions.
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=896115&postcount=44

http://www.firewallleaktester.com/wwdc.htm This is the tool mentioned in the above link.