I actually read through that guy's site - your link points to the service definitions, and doesn't really explain their value.
Just my advice for most people: before you go editing your services, you better know what it is you're disabling. Probably 1/4 of those are network services and some if you disabled would royally fuck your PC's ability to read your network or internet, and in some cases, could cause boot problems.
I think that guy made a valiant effort on the NT4 environment, but chances are, people aren't using NT4 as a workstation anymore, and anyone who IS using NT4 is running servers, and half of those "tweaks" I don't recommend for servers.
He seems to talk a lot about fragmentation and defragging. Defrag is actually a hostile area in some circles. There are entire message boards dedicated to debating its value, I don't recommened even wasting your brainpower on defrag. Unless you are constantly moving around large volumes of abitrary files, nothing becomes all that fragmented. Even database servers are relatively good about HD positioning for data retrieval. IMO, the people who need to worry about defrag are people who use disk mirroring, or disk spanning, where all of your HD read/write is done across multiple disks, where you would actually notice a slowdown in system performance because of fragmentation. Even then, most RAID 5 controllers these days are more than capable of handling what little bit of fragmentation you'll actually encounter.
As far as disabling the Messenger service, that sounds good to me. It doesn't really use many resources, I'd say... 0.03% of your system resources. But, if you're on a high-speed connection with multiple PC's, you need to have some kind of network firewall to block low-end incoming ports anyway (for safety and security).
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