Started working on converting many pages over to Windows 7 OEM/Retail information instead of RC1 content. This time around, I plan on providing Starter as well as Enterprise information.

In order to provide RC1 information as well as Retail, I have archived the following sections and they will be deleted on October 22, 2009, but still available up until that point:

• Windows 7 RC1 Services Information [link removed]
• Windows 7 RC1 Services Configurations [link removed]

I have updated my Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Service Configurations to include all individual service pages for dependencies and accuracy.

I have updated my Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Service Configurations to include individual service pages for dependencies and accuracy. A through G are finished.

I will try and keep this as non-bloggish as possible (even though I have never considered my domain a "blog" of sorts… it could be thought of as one). Anyway, I am working hard on Windows Vista Service Pack 2 information and heading to breaking out as much memory and CPU usage performance as possible. A few things I am looking at:

• Benchmark performance: This is touched on in this forum thread and I wish to fulfill my promise originally drafted January of this year. The "benchmark" will not be a GPU tester, but more of a memory use and boot time breakdown.
• Actual memory usage of each service: This is not as easy as it sounds, but a particular tool I am using, Process Explorer, may help me in determining this. I also have a test system up and running with every service in Automatic and observing what happens and if/when they automatically "stop" as well as the impact of memory/boot performance with various memory configurations (1GB, 2GB, 4GB of RAM, etc)… see also, the first bullet.
• Breaking Vista: Messing around with an OS has always been a hobby of mine since I started PC computing. Yeah, I am that guy that used to delete help files to save on disk space. Did you know that some applications in Windows 95 did not work unless the help file existed? I found out the hard way. What I wish to determine is "what really is needed" as I did for Windows 2000 and XP… disable everything and see what breaks!
• Updating service additional information: Always a top priority.

These points to note are all well and good, but mean nothing unless I make it happen. Unfortunately, it all takes time. Rest assured, it will happen… hopefully, before Windows 7 is released.

I have updated my Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Service Configurations. Each individual service will be updated as time allows. This could take some time, though, so stay tuned!