Windows 7 Default Sevices

Lately we have been plagued by the do-it-yourselfers, those who don't realize that Quack Viper never graduated to Win 7, those who use the super duper tools and so on forth.

These people have, nearly without fail, one thing in common- They have mucked around with the default services and their settings.

For you people who just couldn't leave well enough alone, then this link will help you to repair some of the harm you have done to yourselves.

Guess I'm just frustrated from the rash of problems we are seeing caused by altering the services.

Windows 7 Default Services - TechNet Articles - Home - TechNet Wiki

karlsnooks said:

those who don't realize that Quack Viper never graduated to Win 7, those who use the super duper tools and so on forth.

Not sure where you got that from. He's had a list for Windows 7 since 2009, and also a list for Windows 7 with SP1.


Services - Start or Disable

Black Viper’s Windows 7 Service Configurations
Black Viper’s Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Service Configurations

For you people who just couldn't leave well enough alone, then this link will help you to repair some of the harm you have done to yourselves.

Easy enough if you've used his list to disable any, to just look at the list again and restore any, or all to default. As he lists the default values also.

Mentally he has never made the step from the XP invironment to the Win 7 environment. Services should be left as they are. His advice has caused untold misery.

I think Karl has an excellent point. Mucking around with the services is counterproductive - especially if done by people who do not know the internals and interdependencies of the various services.

Example: you turn off the defrag service - then you cannot shrink a partition in Disk Management. OR, I remember from Vista: if you turned the tablet PC services off, the snipping tool would not work....and so on.

FWIW: Anyone who mucks around with system services and doesn't know what they are doing is an accident waiting to happen.
There are lots of "advice" forums where people give FREE advice which many times is worth what you pay for it. Just like people who immediatly start defragging and screwing with the registry with registry cleaners that promise to speed up their machines by a factor of 2X.
Not likely but this does not stop them from downloading the programs and running them several times and then crying when their computer goes to hell in a handbasket.

If there wern't any problems with windows 7 and pc's in general, then consultants and people like us would be out of a job. Kinda like job security.. :)

My bottom line has always been, if it's working don't screw with it.

If you want a real fast computer, it will cost you.

Rich

Rich, the funny thing is, in most cases it does not even speed up the system (because most of those services just sit there dormant). In the old days when people had 256MB of RAM, it may have made sense, But nowadays where we all have ample RAM, what is the point.

For all who still want to fool around with services karlsnooks post #1 should be bookmarded.

Legacy,

It seems to me that almost all the problems I see are from users blindly messing around and then digging themselves into a hole, especially those that are trying to "tweak" their system for optimum performance!

Same here. I do not like to tell people to perform a repair or a clean install, but I'm going to be telling a couple of people that today because I just can't figure out what they have tinkered with.

Standard problems can be cured with standard solutions, but problems because someone altered the services and/or the registry or applied some program that is not compatible or applied an old driver are sometimes very difficult to isolate and correct.

We can also add the overclockers to that list.