I use Vista on a HP pavilion DV2 laptop. When I look through all the services my laptop starts, it really seems there's way too much of it. I multi boot with XP and 7. Both startup in 40 seconds. Vista takes FIVE minutes and FIFTEEN seconds!
Is there some software that can determine which services I don't need? On 7, there's no propietary HP stuff at all, yet it seems to run fine. There's a LOT of them and some just sit there doing nothing, monitoring for updates I don't really need or want or need to know about the second they're available.
My laptop is the only computer I use at home, there's no home network, aside from the modem-router, which is cabled, not wifi.
Hope this question is specific enough.
I've looked at the other questions but they didn't answer me.
Soooo, which services can I delete without problems?? Which services strike you as bloat ware, right of the bat?
EDIT: At the moment, I got 77 services on Automatic, 10 Auto Delayed, 57 Manual & 19 Disabled. Grand total 152! Seems excessive, no?