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		<title>Switch Between Different Service Profiles</title>
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		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows XP does not offer a way to quickly switch between different service profiles. The only way would be to enable or disable all services manually which would be quite a lot of work. Service Profiles was an entry to the Donation Coder programming competition and it rightfully got a price there.
The PC Software, which [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Windows XP does not offer a way to quickly switch between different service profiles. The only way would be to enable or disable all services manually which would be quite a lot of work. <a href="http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=13569.msg119080#msg119080">Service Profiles</a> was an entry to the <a href="http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=14169">Donation Coder</a> programming competition and it rightfully got a price there.</p>
<p>The PC Software, which comes in a 32-bit, 64-bit and Source Code edition for Windows XP, provides an easy to use interface to create Service Profiles. Let me explain where that could be useful: You might want to use a &#8220;fast&#8221; configuration to maximize system resources for an application, you also might want to create on profile to download and install updates from Microsoft and probably a third that uses all the services that you need in your daily routine.</p>
<p>The PC software asks you to create a backup of the current state which I would highly recommend. The main program interface displays the services with various information, a description pane and one that will contain the various profiles.</p>
<p><span id="more-6029"></span><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/service_profiles-500x330.jpg" alt="service profiles" title="service profiles" width="500" height="330" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6030" /></p>
<p>Each service is listed with its current state, start type, display name, description and a check box that can be used to change the active state and startup type for the selected service by right-clicking it. All the other services will be taken from the default profile and remain as is unless you change them as well.</p>
<p>The &#8220;play&#8221; button will activate a selected Services profile. The application developer has included sample profiles taken from Black Viper&#8217;s service configuration website which can be applied to the application as well.</p>

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