Too many interdependent services and superfluous wan connections that can't be disabled already on windows 7, 2K was the pinnacle of usability and system config

Too many interdependent services and superfluous wan connections that can't be disabled already on windows 7, 2K was the pinnacle of usability and system configurability and sparse use of system resources, with XP closer to 2K than to 7. 7 Mostly was allright because of huge increase in availabe RAM on laptops.