Freeing up 12-70 MB of RAM

Although I used to be a fairly relaxed individual, somewhere along the line I seem to have become firmly convinced that “You can never be too secure.” Since then I seem to have spent most of my time haunting a wide range of security-oriented sites, trying to assimilate whatever wasn’t completely beyond my brain, and testing dozens of programs, all of which promised to enhance my security in one way or another.

In this never-ending search for greater security, one of the more useful sites I visited was that of BlackViper. What I learned there was that the computers we buy have been set up primarily for the convenience of business users, and that they incorporate dozens of services, etc., some of which are unnecessary and even dangerous to the home PC user and serve only to waste valuable resources.

BlackViper gives a fairly detailed list of most of these services, with full descriptions of each, along with suggestions as to which ought to be reset from automatic to manual and which ought to be disabled outright. Since he seemed to be offering valuable advice, advice that would in a sense ‘trim’ my system, I took it and have since noticed an increase in my free RAM of around 20-25 MB. Good stuff! But what an effort it involved! And reading up on and disabling each service while keeping a careful record in case things went haywire and it became necessary to re-enable them was simple compared with some of the things other sites are recommending that we do.

My dream now is of a comprehensive program, a sort of ‘system trimmer,’ that would simplify the task of once and for all shutting down that welter of dangerous and totally unnecessary and resource-wasting bits and pieces which have been built into Windows. If anyone knows of such a program I’d be eternally grateful if they’d let me know. Others who may just want to enhance their security while, as a bonus, “freeing up 12-70 MB of RAM depending on system” should head for BlackViper’s Windows Services Configuration pages at http://www.blackviper.com/index.html I think that if, like me, much of Windows remains a big mystery to you, you’ll find them truly useful

Cheers.

 

Re:BlackViper’s Windows Services Configuration

Hello again, and thanks. No I haven't, but I will if I ever shift to XP. Right now I'm using Win2K.

Regards

 

Re:BlackViper’s Windows Services Configuration

Well, LPW, not all of us Win2K retards are backward in coming forward.

Cheers

P.S. Ooops! I meant, erh... LWM

 

Yes. I've long been under the impression that Win2K was the more stable system. And since I've also long been convinced that 'simplest is best,' given a choice I usually plump for the simple. But then, what can you expect from a Win2K retard?

Cheers

 

tepi,
You may find this site comprehensive and informative while keeping things fairly simple and understandable.
Its one that I reached for and have not looked back.
Steve Gibson is one amazing individual and is willing to share his ups and downs with all of us.
He has put together some lightweight programs that do heavy things. IMO
A lot of his aps are geared for what I think your interested in.
If you havn't already checked it out here's the Link.
http://grc.com/freepopular.htm

HTH
Take care

 

Hi RJ100:

Many thanks, but I do know Steve Gibson's site. I'm aware that he has critics, but since his programs looked to a non-tech like me as if they couldn't do any harm and might do some good I installed them all. I listed them in the post 'Am I "fully layered"?' at another thread http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=17332;start=msg107408#msg107408
and got a bit of flak for, it would seem, overdoing things. It's true that I may have gone overboard on monitoring programs, but Gibson's security programs still seem to me to be essential and I check them regularly to make sure they are all still active. But thanks, anyway, for the link. It is, as you say, a fine site.

Cheers

 

LWM I went to xp antispy link and this is what I found

 

Ok I just clicked on the link in your post and that is where it took me I must be a little dense today but I finally figured it out. Thank You.

 

I thought that is was the bad site at first but after your last post the fog cleared and I realized that is was just a warning about the bad site