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Oh, I believe you. I'm just saying that disabling unused services just because they're unused does nothing whatsoever.
And, my friend, you were exaggerating when you said 100+ services.
Oh, I believe you. I'm just saying that disabling unused services just because they're unused does nothing whatsoever.
And, my friend, you were exaggerating when you said 100+ services.
Heh heh, yeah you're right. I just counted the services not being used which came to 120 something. I think my other system is running 65+ services out of the box, so I've canned about 45 services or so. Still love Win7, it's the best they've done so far.
Nice to see one of these threads again now that they're so much more civil.
A year or two ago there was still a loud collision between the two points of view.
I think this is the issue, getting reliable information before tweaking anything, understanding the implications and having the means of reversing any changes made. And Greg my system never has BSODs merely hiccups from the very many pieces of software I have to maintain like everyone else. I think if you can trim your basic memory useage then that means more is available for other processes so I do disable some services though not to the extent of FastBoot. Also disabling many of the Event Logs although perhaps not necessary must have some impact - I can't really see why so many are enabled by default when they are just logging mundane information.
This is faulty thinking. You want to USE your memory, not preserve it. Any not being used is wasted.
What you don't want to do is peg your RAM, by having enough to begin with.
I think what you mean is use it for the things you want it to be used for - not the things that are just hangers-on. I'm afraid my system is maxed out at 4Gb, runs happily though and I'm quite content with Windows 7 but I'll continue to trim where I can to make my system as I want it - and have more space for the programs I choose to run.
A better approach is to get a clean boot so nothing is running without your knowledge. Uncheck everything in msconfig>Startup and >Services (after hiding MS services) except your AV. Check back after reboots and periodically that nothing writes itself back in or turn it off in its Program prefs or Uninstall.
Of course a person can do what they want with their computer. My concern is that a new person will try doing this and make a door stop out of their computer. To those new people I suggest leaving your services alone. Some things on a computer should only be done with the proper knowledge.
Totally agree. Which is exactly why I wrote in my initial post (twice) that I don't recommend turning off all the services that I did. I also called this system my 'suicide' system to make it clear. I researched each service I flipped off and its relation to another, so I know which one (or more) to snap on if I need to (did you know there are a least 5 services needed for restores and 6 for images?)
My goal wasn't really performance, that was a nice side effect. I wanted to see if a Win7 system could run properly without all the icing and without relying on computer dogma.
Yes I did understand what you were doing, testing and learning. That a good thing but probably wouldn't be for a new person in the computer world. It's kind of like turning off the fire department in your town or city. When you need them they are there. You don't want to turn off the fire department because you don't need them now because when you do need them they so no way you turned me off.