What can be shut down in Xp when burning DVD VCD And SVCD.

In 98 ME etc you can shut down all but Explore and Systray, but Xp has about 50 items running.

You shut off basicly everything in the Task manager that has your log on Name next to it accept Explorer..Most of the things that say "System" next to them are needed to run windows......

You definitely shouldn't have that much stuff running in the background. I have 24 processes running and that is a lot IMHO. It is pretty lean, but there are a few things that I like to have running.

First thing that I am wondering is how many of those may be worms or backdoors. You would be surprised. There are a few nasty ones like Teeskids, Welchia, etc that install on any PC with a physical network connection. Personally what I do if I see seomthign suspect is just do a search on the internet to see what it is and what it does. That is how I found out about Teeskids. Fresh install, hadn't even loaded any drivers and it was installed.

Here is a good link for services and descriptions:

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

What does it matter what you have running?

Whatever is, should not cause any problems for burning

Seb