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Once again you are several years too late to convince me or any of the 1,000's and 1,000's of people who have cleaned up their computer by disabling unneeded services and noticed not only performance improvements but quicker start times as a result of the computer's processor not being burdened down with useless services as well as several instances of Microsoft information gathering that most users including myself thought that they had opted out of in Windows 7.
Case in point my Vista laptop with its 2.0 Ghz Dual Core processor and 3 GB of RAM not only performed better after disabling 35 unneeded services many of which were running every day and dragging the performance of the hardware challenged down, but trimming the bloat of of the totally unneeded services cut a full 30 seconds off of its boot time!
OTOH on my Win 7 desktop which has an Intel Core i7 quad core processor that benchmarks 6X higher than the laptop's dual core processor the performance enhancements from disabling services were not nearly so noticeable, but its start time did improved by 16% and along with many other totally unneeded services 4 of the Microsoft information gathering services that start every day had finally been disabled!
Why would people want to keep totally unneeded services for things like Fax, Bit Locker, Bluetooth, Human Interface Device Access, Remote Registry, Parental Controls and many other services that they will never ever use as vital elements on their computer. You have every right to try to convince people who know little or nothing about cutting unneeded services some of which gather detailed information about their computer for Microsoft which is new to Windows 7 that more is somehow less, but those of us who have taken the time to understand the highly complex set of 150+ services which run Windows already have proof that disabling totally unneeded services does no harm and the more you tell people not to do something the more they are going to want to find out for themselves.
~Maxx~
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Case in point my Vista laptop with its 2.0 Ghz Dual Core processor and 3 GB of RAM not only performed better after disabling 35 unneeded services many of which were running every day and dragging the performance of the hardware challenged down, but trimming the bloat of of the totally unneeded services cut a full 30 seconds off of its boot time!
OTOH on my Win 7 desktop which has an Intel Core i7 quad core processor that benchmarks 6X higher than the laptop's dual core processor the performance enhancements from disabling services were not nearly so noticeable, but its start time did improved by 16% and along with many other totally unneeded services 4 of the Microsoft information gathering services that start every day had finally been disabled!
Why would people want to keep totally unneeded services for things like Fax, Bit Locker, Bluetooth, Human Interface Device Access, Remote Registry, Parental Controls and many other services that they will never ever use as vital elements on their computer. You have every right to try to convince people who know little or nothing about cutting unneeded services some of which gather detailed information about their computer for Microsoft which is new to Windows 7 that more is somehow less, but those of us who have taken the time to understand the highly complex set of 150+ services which run Windows already have proof that disabling totally unneeded services does no harm and the more you tell people not to do something the more they are going to want to find out for themselves.
~Maxx~
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My Computer
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- HP HPE 270f
- OS
- Windows 7 x64 Home Premium
- CPU
- Intel Core i7 930 @ 2.8 Ghz Socket 1366 LGA
- Motherboard
- Pegatron Truckee v1.04E41
- Memory
- 8 GB 1366 Mhz DDR3 (PC3-10700) RAM
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI Radeon 5770 1 GB DDR5 RAM
- Sound Card
- Realtech High Definition
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 32" Sony Bravia
- Screen Resolution
- 1366 X 768
- Hard Drives
- Intel 25nm 120 GB Series 320 SSD HD Tune- 265 MBps Read/ 130 MBps Write
LaCie 1TB + 1TB RAID 0 eSATA Drive HD Tune- 160 MBps Read/ 90 MBps Write
- Keyboard
- Logitech Illuminated
- Mouse
- Logitech MX Revolution
- Internet Speed
- 36.4 Mbps Maximum on a 37 Mbps Motorola SB501 Modem
) is not really that much better then when they arrived. So in my somewhat objective opinion, I'd recommend someone in such a position, don't change any services until they understand just what they are doing by changing them. Read up, Goggle them all and check several sources for an idea of their origin and purpose at least. Seven forums has lots of OTHER past forum dialogs between members you can search through, as well as tutorials which may contain related info - and they are of the highest quality available on the internet. I only recommend this because of the wide spread of opinions being presented here. rather than contribute to the lack of an answer, I'll yield to the above intelligent opinions, as my answer is mixed in there to a degree just as much as many other's. That's my recommendation for anytime you get an answer that's more of an argument than an answer.
