xp service tweaks   (link)

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/strangeservice.htm
Disabling all of the "unneeded services" frees up 12-70 MB of RAM, depending on system.
Do you mean that out of 89 services, 36 are set to Automatic as DEFAULT, but, we MAY only need 8 running?!? YES.