I’m not sure whether I’ll see any impact but I shut off a lot of the services talked about in this Guide to Useless Windows Services article. Windows certainly tries to be everything to everyone and in doing so has to have a lot of services running that the average user may never ever call. In theory, shutting those off has the potential to reduce startup time, free up some memory, and speed up your machine in general.

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