Optimisation on a per user basis?

[tottyspotter]

Hey all, I'm running XP along with a domain server that I mainly use so that I can log onto the laptop or desktop and still see everything the same, like email and any preference changes, also any favourites I add to firefox etc. Because of this, there are a lot of services that I need running to enable the functionality that I desire.

My idea is to create a local account on my gaming rig with minimum fuss, minimum start menu icons, background, all text enhancing, menu enhancing thingamejigs turned off. My question is though, can you disable services on a per-user basis? I know how to optimise a system through disabling services, but I'm not aware of a way to do this so that it's only disabled for a particular user (so that I still have full network and other functionality when I log on my roaming account).

Would really appreciate any help you guys can offer :-)

Si

[Gizmo]

You could run a logon script that would stop the services when the user logs on, and then a logoff script that would start them back up when the user logs off.

[tottyspotter]

Ok, i'm not too hot on scripting. Would this do it? Something I found on the net.

strComputer = "."
' NB strService is case sensitive.
strService = " 'Alerter' "
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" _
& strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colListOfServices = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_Service Where Name ="_
& strService & " ")
For Each objService in colListOfServices
objService.StopService()
Next

[Gizmo]

I don't know about the VBScript you posted; I was thinking more along the lines of a batch file with the 'net start servicename' command, but you've got the general idea.