Recent content by voteMash

Server service: No local network. Thus all this would amount to is a potential security risk (as I do not run windows updates, but even then...). Network DDE - No apps that need this. COM+ - is set to manual, so if anything needs it (like System Event Notification), then they will start...

I'm not really running a server. I just prefer 2k3 to XP. And I've had great luck doing without updates, I just run Sygate PF and (more recently) Nod32 AV. I can't see the benefit of endlessly updating my system. I doubt there are speed increases to be had and I doubt that it would improve...

Thing is, I've run this OS for a couple of years and I havn't always had this problem, tho I have always disabled services, never updated, and run the hacked uxtheme.dll... But I am going to try to get some updates to see if it makes a difference. Here's a list of the services I run, perhaps...

I've been having this problem with windows 2003 server explorer.exe... Every half an hour the active explorer window will freeze up and the whole system will slow to a crawl. It's easily rectified by closing it through task manager and running it again, but it happens several times every night...