To batscott

Go here to Black Vipers web site, he has the best guide for what services need to be turned off safely.

In your your case, print the webpage out, and keep it beside you when you change them back to the default settings.

When you have them back to normal, then you can turn off the unneeded services from BV's guide...

Windows XP x86 (32-bit) Service Pack 3 Service Configurations by Black Viper

THANK YOU! This is exactly what I needed. I turned everything back on that's on in standard mode. Restarted, and bam, printer, speakers all of it working again. Even the fan in the cpu tower stopped spinning all the time! About 95% of those that should have been on (either manual or automatic) were off. Why would that happen? Was it a bug?

I'm just curious to know how it happened and why. So weird.

Anyway, thank you, that was resolved and it is all better now!