I've got a question and I think it can be done, just not sure how to do it. I am on the plane a lot and when I boot up my laptop I go into the Administrative Tools --> Services section and disable all the services I don't need while I am on the plane to conserve battery life and speed up the computer for playing games and stuff. Everytime I get on the plane I am always going into the Services section to disable them manually.

Is there a way to create like another user on the laptop and set the services I don't want to load to associate with that user name? EG: "CoZ" user all services load / "Plane" user no services load. Instead of doing it manually each and every time?

It's no big deal but it gets to be monotonous at times.

you can= start-run-msconfig and select the ones you don't want.
or creat another user.

control panel user accounts.

dual boot in and make 2 os's on the lappy...one with and one disabled.

Ok, I figured how how to do what I wanted to do and figured I would pass on the information here. It would probably benefit some of you, in case you wanted to configure your desktop/laptop in the same way (eg: freeing up everything for gaming, etc)

First, go into your System Properties. Then look for the "Hardware Tab". Click on the "Hardware Profiles" button. You will only see one profile in there, click it and then select "Copy". You will then have a 2 of the same. Select the one you just created and click on "Rename" and name it something else (I called mine Airplane).

If you did everything correctly, when you restart windows, a dos screen will show up asking you which profile you would like to boot into. Pick the new one you just made and boot into Windows normally. Once windows loads you can go into the "Device Manager" and start picking things you don't want to run power to and/or start up. Like for instance; select your Wireless LAN card and then right click it. Go into properties and look for "Device Usage". You want to select "Do not use in this hardware profile". Repeat the steps as necessary for every device you don't want to enable in that particular hardware profile. I have pretty much everything disabled for the "airplane mode". It has increased my battery retention ten-fold!

Now go to your Services in your control panel. Find a service you don't want starting up. For instance; "Automatic Updates". Right click on it, go to properties. From there click the tab that says "Log On" on the bottom you will see a box that says "Hardware Profile", both your hardware profiles will be listed in there. Select the new one you created and select "Disabled". You can do this for every service if you want to but I happened to remember what services start up in the other hardware profile so I just selected those and changed them to "Disabled". Be smart about it though... disable one of them at a time and keep re-booting windows. The first time around I disabled a lot of stuff and XP wouldn't boot at all. Also, don't disable stuff you might need. Like your networking components if you want to boot up and play online gaming and stuff.

Hope this helped. It was much much easier then setting up a dual-boot option and having to re-install everything all over again.

You guys are slacking here.