I went to this site and used the "safe" version of turning of unneeded services. I only use a computer to surf the web, homework, and protein folding.
I am assuming this frees up processor time. Am I correct in my thinking?

http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/registry.htm

Yes ,and I've used this before for XP ,it works.

Services are ran in memory, and don't use CPU cycles until they are called upon.

For instance, The print spooler will just sit there doing nothing unless you are to print something, then for a short moment the service will use cpu cycles. Then back to nil.

If you want to fold those proteins like crazy, get a nice cpu cooler and overclock this piss out of it. :)

Or pick up a couple GPUs in put in either crossfire or SLI. Rock and Roll.

Go real crazy and get four GPU's wow.....


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