I was wondering which vista services are really needed (for a 512Mb vista PC).

I thought: wouldn’t it be nice if the Black Viper website was back.

I did a google search for vista services, when I noticed that the Blackviper.com website seemed to be back in the google SERPs!

Well I went there and found that Black Viper (Charles Sparks) was back, and he has a list of Vista services. Welcome back BV!

Although his info on XP is probably not so relevant in this age of Gigabytes of RAM, I still find myself using his info to tune 256MB XP systems, so that they run a little faster.

So now, I might be able to tune Vista to run acceptably with 512Mb (I hope)

For those who don’t know about BV, he has a very comprehensive list of standard windows services, and what they do, and he also gives you an indication on if you will notice if they are disabled.

Update:

After having looked at BVs vista settings for a while, it looks like he hasn’t done much research into each service yet… it looks like his vista services need a bit more work. I’m sure Charles will do his usual magic over the coming months!