Most Windows laptops aren't known for their battery life; part of the reason is that Windows is filled to the brim with background services you don't really need. Disabling a few of them can earn you ...

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Guest post from TechRepublic's 10 Things blog. There are dozens of guides out there that help you determine which services you can safely disable on your Windows XP desktop. Disabling unnecessary ...

High resource utilization by any process slows down a Windows operating system and one of the services that could cause it is utcsvc.exe process which at times, is known to cause high CPU and Disk ...

Disabling all the services will make your system unstable. If you have accidentally disabled all services in MSCONFIG on your Windows computer, the solutions provided in this article may help you ...

A few Duron boards disable HLT by default. I "fixed" my register using WPCREDIT and my CPU temps dropped significantly. They do this because of power regulation fears ie switching a big load on/off ...

In Windows systems, it is possible to disable a core through the system configuration window. Choose the number of processors that should be enabled or disabled and restart the computer for the ...