background services in winxp

what exactly does this do? You know, optimize for bets performance of background services?

 

Not exactly sure what your question is?...If you want an explaination of what services do what the n I'd suggeat BlackViper's site: http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm
-that'll tell you what is safe to turn off -and give you an idea of why the service is running -if there are services that are running that you don't see at black viper's I'd suggest a google search of the full service name with extention -that usually answers anny questions you might have.
Yours,
522.

 

go to start->control panel->system->advanced->performance settings-> advanced then adjust for best performance of programs or background services. I set to background services, and when I switch between large files, it does it seamlessly NO LAG. I can run doom 3 and farcry and alt tab back and forth between the two no problem. When I do this, however I do have to lower graphics settings.

 

Background services will be task running in the background, which is excellent for a server.

Your foreground tasks lose priority and in turn, performance.

 

So if I'm mainly running a game machine, it should be set to foreground right?