Running Windows With No Services

mattOzan writes "So how many of the almost 4 dozen default-enabled services does Windows XP really need in order to preserve basic functioning, like web surfing and running applications? Zero, as it turns out. Mark Russinovich at Sysinternals demonstrates that if certain steps are followed, Windows XP will still run with only two active processes: System and Csrss.exe. No Smss.exe, Winlogon.exe, Services.exe, Lsass.exe... And, contrary to the expectations of various lead engineers at Microsoft, even Internet Explorer will still work under such conditions."

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Feel "teh diference"

[putko]

This article points out (inidirectly) what little control users have over their own windows environment.

With BSD, you can strip out drivers (e.g. USB drivers that could cause security problems), change init, change boot, dual boot, blah blah blah blah.

With Windows, you get what's in the box. That's it.

And you can be sure that if this guy's hacking pisses off windows, he'll get cease and desist letters, or a DMCA blah blah blah...

Re:Who cares?

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet that amongst those getting laid, the vast majority of them are MacOs X users, and that there is an extremely strong correlation between virginity and being a Linux user.