Removing Windows Vista Media Center from bootup - Disable MCE to make Vista faster

I installed Windows VISTA on the fastest computer in my house a couple of months ago - big mistake. Now my fastest computer runs the slowest, such as in Internet Browsing and many other commonly used tasks.

Often when I want to do something on the VISTA computer, it is already “100% busy” with some of it’s own ideas, and typically these things are the “trusted installer”, (who trusts it I have no idea) and the Windows Media Center.

I plan to go back to Windows XP, probably one of the best operating systems ever made. But in the meantime, I’m going to speedup my Vista by disabling MCE:

• Right click on your my computer icon, left click on manage. A computer manager window will then pop up. Double click on services and applications icon in the right hand box. Then double click on the services icon in the right hand box.
• Now that you have the services menu up and running scroll all the way down to the W’s. You will see several services that start with “windows media center”
• there will be a windows media center extender service, a media center scheduler service, a media center service launcher, a media center receiver server, etc.
• right click on each media center service, then left click on properties.
• once your in the properties windows, you’ll be on the very first tab, the “general” tab.
• there will be a section that says “startup” it will be a drop down menu box. click the drop down box and select disable.
• Now just do that for each and every single media center service.
• reboot windows and you will now have media center disabled

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