What services are safe to disable?

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  1. Posts : 131
    windows 7 home premium x64
       #1

    What services are safe to disable?


    Hi all,

    Can anyone give me any pointers on what services are safe to disable in Windows 7 Ultimate edition..... Would be grateful for your feed back

    Thanks

    Sam
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  2. Posts : 28,845
    Win 8 Release candidate 8400
       #2

    There is a site called blackviper dot com. You can find which are there but remember something that is safe now may not be 6 months from now when you install a new application that needs one of them and chances are you wont remember which.
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  3. Posts : 1,533
    Windows 7 Professional x64 Service Pack 1
       #3

    sammy3417 said:
    Hi all,

    Can anyone give me any pointers on what services are safe to disable in Windows 7 Ultimate edition..... Would be grateful for your feed back

    Thanks

    Sam
    Leave the Windows services alone. You don't want to mess up Windows 7. Try disabling startup items in the startup tab of msconfig.exe
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  4. Posts : 28,845
    Win 8 Release candidate 8400
       #4

    windude99 said:
    sammy3417 said:
    Hi all,

    Can anyone give me any pointers on what services are safe to disable in Windows 7 Ultimate edition..... Would be grateful for your feed back

    Thanks

    Sam
    Leave the Windows services alone. You don't want to mess up Windows 7. Try disabling startup items in the startup tab of msconfig.exe
    When you disable in msconfig it only disables them for the current user. Usually recommended against for that reason.
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  5. Posts : 1,533
    Windows 7 Professional x64 Service Pack 1
       #5

    zigzag3143 said:
    windude99 said:
    sammy3417 said:
    Hi all,

    Can anyone give me any pointers on what services are safe to disable in Windows 7 Ultimate edition..... Would be grateful for your feed back

    Thanks

    Sam
    Leave the Windows services alone. You don't want to mess up Windows 7. Try disabling startup items in the startup tab of msconfig.exe
    When you disable in msconfig it only disables them for the current user. Usually recommended against for that reason.
    Are you talking about the startup programs, or are you talking about the services?
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  6. Posts : 28,845
    Win 8 Release candidate 8400
       #6

    windude99 said:
    zigzag3143 said:
    windude99 said:
    Leave the Windows services alone. You don't want to mess up Windows 7. Try disabling startup items in the startup tab of msconfig.exe
    When you disable in msconfig it only disables them for the current user. Usually recommended against for that reason.
    Are you talking about the startup programs, or are you talking about the services?
    He did ask about services right?

    Have to consider the skillset of the OP

    I gave him a source and cautioned him about the consequences.
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  7. Posts : 7,878
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #7

    Leave services alone. In lots of testing, I was almost unable to prove any benefit whatsoever to shutting down services and in most cases the system performed worse with services disabled.
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  8. Posts : 28,845
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    pparks1 said:
    Leave services alone. In lots of testing, I was almost unable to prove any benefit whatsoever to shutting down services and in most cases the system performed worse with services disabled.
    Most of us believe this way. If you having an issue you should resolve that not try to make a Lite version of win 7.
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  9. Posts : 1,167
    Windows 7 Pro with SP1 32bit
       #9

    There are many services that a user never uses. So what is wrong in discontinuing these services and making many others manual from automatic? If one has patience and discontinues one or two services at a time then heavens are not going to fall. Wait for a few days to see the effect of the service(s) that has been discontinued. If the computer starts behaving erratically after a service is discontinued it could be brought right back.

    Discontinuing services is a step forward in our learning process. Trouble only takes place if we discontinue too many of them at a time and if the computer starts giving trouble we don't remember the changes that were made because there were so many of them.
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  10. Posts : 7,878
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #10

    ^ The trouble is 2 fold.

    #1). Mostly performance won't improve...so it's a bit of work with little to no reward
    #2). You "could" disable something today that you won't discover to be a problem for a few months when installing some other software or using a function within a piece of software that you don't often use. And you may not remember that 1 off service that you previously decided to no longer run.
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