I stripped most stuff out with nLite, my HTTP downloads are OK,
they can go full speed, but when it comes to torrents, forget it, I
am lucky if I can get 1Kb/s. Yes the port is OK. Yes I have tried
Azureus and uTorrent. Yes its on torrents with plenty of active
seeds. Yes, I have still got my "Network Connections" service
started.

Is it because of some service missing like...

"Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)"

or something? Loads of pages I am finding say to disable the Windows Firewall
service and I am pretty sure in the past I have had that disabled too.

Just asking in case anyone knows off the top of their head what
service it is you should not remove?

This is what I remove, final size about 130MB and µTorrent works perfectly





Attach your Last session file

No need, here's the Windows Services I am removing and you're not removing:

COM+
DNS Client
Internet Authentication (IAS)
Network Location Awareness (NLA)
Network Provisioning
Protected Storage
Shell Services
System Event Notification (SENS)
Uninterruptible Power Supply
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
Windows Management Instrumentation
Windows Time

Its got to be something to do with one of those in red?

I wonder if I could try a full install of XP (in VMware) and try disabling
those ones in red, see if it affects the speeds?

BTW how are you guys saving an image like that with a list of removed stuff?
nLite has some option somewhere to do that?!

Have you tried enabling/disabling encryption?

Torrents on my computer will not download because of my ISP. They're implementing traffic shaping. For this reason, I don't use torrents anymore

Na my ISP is OK, its only since I am testing this version of XP
with these services removed...

DNS Client - Is this an old service, seldom used? Why should it affect torrents?

Internet Authentication (IAS) - Dial-Up and VPN? I am on Dial-Up but my HTTP
downloads are not affected so I can't see why torrents would be affected.

Network Location Awareness (NLA) - ???

Network Provisioning - To do with Wireless?

With DNS Client disabled µTorrent works for me.


Internet Authentication (IAS)
Network Location Awareness (NLA)
Network Provisioning
Protected Storage
System Event Notification (SENS)
Uninterruptible Power Supply
Windows Time

these I have removed before on my old nLited installs.
µTorrent has always worked for me.

I have never removed Universal Plug and Play Device Host, COM+ and Windows Management Instrumentation, can be that......


the image I made with FastStone Capture

my settings:

Capture mode, Capture scrolling window.