Eddy
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Lee, applications and services are two diferent things. If you boot 98(se) in safe mode you will see only systray and explorer are running. If you boot XP in safe mode you will see more things running. Not only the XP equivalent of “systray and explorer” but also some services.
btw, with the current systems defrag will clean up the drive and makes the system run a little faster, but how many people notice that? A fragmented drive doesn’t have such a great impact on the systems speed as in the old days. Configuring a system correct will increase speed more noticible.