re: Services.exe issue Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 11:43 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Larry (1292 messages posted) I'd wager that you have too many items trying to load at startup. Are you familiar with using MS's System Configuration Utility, msconfig? Unfortunately and for some unknown reason, MS left it out of Win2K. But...you can add it in! Make a COPY (don't move it, copy it) of it from an XP system (it's in Windows\service pack files\i386) and put it on a floppy, thumb drive, etc. It's small, only about 155k. Place it in your Win2K system folder, reboot, and start it from Run by typing in msconfig. My guess is you'll find a lot of unneeded boot time items you can disable. Also, have your IT guy put more RAM in if you're low. I consider 256 MB to be the minimum I can tolerate for any kind of system responsiveness, and just like XP 512 MB is even better. NT based systems LOVE plenty of RAM! On Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 8:34 am, Darren wrote: >After logging into a win2000 machine at my work, it takes close to 10 min for the >machine to become available. >No program can be started during that time since the services.exe is taking 100% >of the processor time (as one can see on the task manager). >This was not happening before. >I do not know what service running under the services.exe is causing the issue. >Disabling one by one service and see what happens would be not only time consuming >due to number of services but also because it is a work machine I can not play to >much with it as I will be in deep shit if I screw something. > >Is there a utility or some other way to find out what services are running at a given >moment under services.exe and amount of processor time a particular service is taking. >Thanks for help. > Written in response to: Services.exe issue (Darren: Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 8:34 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Services.exe issue (Darren: Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 8:34 am) re: Services.exe issue (Jim O'Calaghan: Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 9:58 am) re: Services.exe issue (Darren: Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 10:33 am) re: Services.exe issue (Larry: Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 11:43 am) re: Services.exe issue (Deb: Fri, Dec 7, 2007, 4:25 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum