Disabling Windows 7 Services

Well... in my personal oppinion, I use to change some services state, but generally I leave most of them in manual, I only disable a few ones (TrkWks, WU, WSrch...) but many of them are already tweaked since MS did a good job on fixing resouce usage issues from Vista. BUT here comes my point: if you DON'T KNOW what you are doing, I suggest NOT to mess with your services, and if you do, ALWAYS do a registry backup for that certain key that contains services configurations so if you get in troble you can easily restore defaults, that's what I always do, even if I have more than 5 years tweking this kind of stuff from Windows 2000 to 7.

For starndard users disabling extra startup programs from msconfig should suffice, if you like gaming, GameBooster or TuneUp Utilities are your friends, they can temporarily disable unnecesary services so you can use all your available resorces for your games, buut even me, that barely plays some PC games, need them.

If you need a reccomendation, first learn how windows (every version that is NT based) handles services and what they do, so you can ensure you don't break your system, as I said, I just disable some services, but generally you don't need to mess with them, my reasons of disabling WU is simple BTW: It annoys me that my bandwith is in use every time WU looks for updates (Even if BITS does its job on lowering bandwith usage...) and Wsearch... I always organize my files, so I always know where they are and where to find, for me Wsearch is useless, but for most people they are IMPORTANT services and I would recommend NOT disabling them unless you know what you are doing.

Amost forgot, if you ever think on disabling Windows Firewall because you have a 3rd party program DONT EVER DO IT!!!!! unless you want prblems with networking profiles and its setting not being saved, detected and used. Same goes for all related services in this category like AuthIP & IKE and Base Filtering Engine, they are NEEDED by Windows Firewall and overall Windows 7, otherwise your security wll be seriously lowered.

Just my oppinion

See ya!!

FerchogtX said:

if you like gaming, GameBooster or TuneUp Utilities

Those do absolutely nothing. They do not help one bit. What they try to fix was never the problem on Windows 7. If they cannot help my crap of a computer, they will not help one with a much beefier machine.