Need Full Windows Services List

[Thorsen]

BunBun, in the add/remove programs section you should also be able to add/remove windows components. Some of the stuff you are looking for might be in there.

 

[BunBun]

BunBun, in the add/remove programs section you should also be able to add/remove windows components. Some of the stuff you are looking for might be in there.

Yeah I have removed what I can from there. But aspects of those things are still in the system. Dont get me wrong I like how theres more in that list now but there needs to be more and more options.

 

[Greg S]

I want a listing of all winows services that run at startup or that may run sometime during the day, and what they do exactly. I want to be able to decide if I want those services running and taking up resources or not.

I want the bare minimun services running to let the OS do One Job Only - The One Job it was designed to do.. Run my software when I tell it to. Nothing more.

Well what's the final verdict? Can you give us a list of services that you modified and a brief description as to why they weren't needed for you and your setup?

 

[CarlTR6]

The first screen shot are my disabled services. The next are services I am planning to disable. In addition to these, there are three more I will disable.

 

[Greg S]

The first screen shot are my disabled services. The next are services I am planning to disable. In addition to these, there are three more I will disable.

Thanks Carl, I've went over mine and compared them to yours. Of the ones you have disabled, mine are/were set to manual. A few I had already disabled but now I'm disabling all of these for a while and will see how it goes.

 

[Frostmourne]

This is beyond pointless.

 

[hubris]

This is beyond pointless.

agreed

 

[CarlTR6]

Thanks Greg. As you can see most of those are services for corporate type networking and for remote management which more than likely I will never use. If and when I purchase Bluetooth stuff I will put that one on manual. I fully realize these services would most likely never run anyway set on manual.

The remote management stuff I disabled out of my security paranoia.

Frostmourne and Hubris, it may well be pointless; I am most certainly not experienced enough to argue that. But for me it is learning experience of how my system works. And that is not pointless to me; it is knowledge.

 

[Greg S]

This is beyond pointless.

What, you saying it's pointless or the fact that some want things their way? I failed to mention that I'm testing this for someone. I've already said early on that I don't see the need for it but am willing to test it for possible gotchas. I'm ready to rollback at the click of a button. In addition to the screeny I posted, I've unchecked the ipv6 and disabled all components in the registry.

 

[Frostmourne]

This is beyond pointless.

What, you saying it's pointless or the fact that some want things their way? I failed to mention that I'm testing this for someone. I've already said early on that I don't see the need for it but am willing to test it for possible gotchas. I'm ready to rollback at the click of a button. In addition to the screeny I posted, I've unchecked the ipv6 and disabled all components in the registry.

Its pointless because it does nothing to your system speed or resource usage.

 

[Greg S]

Thanks Greg. As you can see most of those are services for corporate type networking and for remote management which more than likely I will never use. If and when I purchase Bluetooth stuff I will put that one on manual. I fully realize these services would most likely never run anyway set on manual.

The remote management stuff I disabled out of my security paranoia.

Frostmourne and Hubris, it may well be pointless; I am most certainly not experienced enough to argue that. But for me it is learning experience of how my system works. And that is not pointless to me; it is knowledge.

Very well put. I especially agree with "As you can see most of those are services for corporate type networking and for remote management". A single user has no need for it.

 

[Greg S]

This is beyond pointless.

What, you saying it's pointless or the fact that some want things their way? I failed to mention that I'm testing this for someone. I've already said early on that I don't see the need for it but am willing to test it for possible gotchas. I'm ready to rollback at the click of a button. In addition to the screeny I posted, I've unchecked the ipv6 and disabled all components in the registry.

Its pointless because it does nothing to your system speed or resource usage.

I agree. But when it comes to microsoft, manual is not the same as disabled.

 

[Frostmourne]

What, you saying it's pointless or the fact that some want things their way? I failed to mention that I'm testing this for someone. I've already said early on that I don't see the need for it but am willing to test it for possible gotchas. I'm ready to rollback at the click of a button. In addition to the screeny I posted, I've unchecked the ipv6 and disabled all components in the registry.

Its pointless because it does nothing to your system speed or resource usage.

I agree. But when it comes to microsoft, manual is not the same as disabled.

Manual services are interactive - they start as necessary.

 

[hubris]

Frostmourne and Hubris, it may well be pointless; I am most certainly not experienced enough to argue that. But for me it is learning experience of how my system works. And that is not pointless to me; it is knowledge.

Have to admit to those points..

Too much time on your hands. ? LOL

Wonder what Charles at BV would say. ?

 

[Greg S]

Its pointless because it does nothing to your system speed or resource usage.

I agree. But when it comes to microsoft, manual is not the same as disabled.

Manual services are interactive - they start as necessary.

Necessary for what? I think the point for some that are doing this is they feel the possibility exists that upon boot/desktop loading that some of these services that are on manual are triggered and then stopped at some point shortly thereafter. If the single home user has no need for these services to do that, then it's there choice to disable them. If at some point in the future it becomes needed for them to re-enable them, I'm sure with the help of BV's guide it would be easy enough to do so. Also, if it does nothing to your system speed or resource usage then it should make no difference if it's set to manual or disabled, right? So we're back to the point of, they start as necessary. It's not necessary for a non networked single home user to have those items in the first place but they do because the OS is a one size fits all. Some just want to tailor their's to more fit them with their usage and I wish them well in doing so.

 

[Frostmourne]

I agree. But when it comes to microsoft, manual is not the same as disabled.

Manual services are interactive - they start as necessary.

Necessary for what? I think the point for some that are doing this is they feel the possibility exists that upon boot/desktop loading that some of these services that are on manual are triggered and then stopped at some point shortly thereafter. If the single home user has no need for these services to do that, then it's there choice to disable them. If at some point in the future it becomes needed for them to re-enable them, I'm sure with the help of BV's guide it would be easy enough to do so. Also, if it does nothing to your system speed or resource usage then it should make no difference if it's set to manual or disabled, right? So we're back to the point of, they start as necessary. It's not necessary for a non networked single home user to have those items in the first place but they do because the OS is a one size fits all. Some just want to tailor their's to more fit them with their usage and I wish them well in doing so.

The services are triggered if necessary, then end when necessary. Simple as that.

 

[hubris]

Thanks Greg. As you can see most of those are services for corporate type networking and for remote management which more than likely I will never use. If and when I purchase Bluetooth stuff I will put that one on manual. I fully realize these services would most likely never run anyway set on manual.

The remote management stuff I disabled out of my security paranoia.

Frostmourne and Hubris, it may well be pointless; I am most certainly not experienced enough to argue that. But for me it is learning experience of how my system works. And that is not pointless to me; it is knowledge.

Very well put. I especially agree with "As you can see most of those are services for corporate type networking and for remote management". A single user has no need for it.

Well, perhaps after finding a good setup you could let the findings be known.

I'm a "single user". ( and single ) lol

 

[CarlTR6]

This is beyond pointless.

What, you saying it's pointless or the fact that some want things their way? I failed to mention that I'm testing this for someone. I've already said early on that I don't see the need for it but am willing to test it for possible gotchas. I'm ready to rollback at the click of a button. In addition to the screeny I posted, I've unchecked the ipv6 and disabled all components in the registry.

Its pointless because it does nothing to your system speed or resource usage.

No argument for me on that. I have already stated in this thread that Windows Seven does an excellent job of managing services and resources. Not being a Windows Seven programmer, I do not know if some, all or any of these services briefly run at startup or atany other time simply to see if they are needed - as a check. The ones I disabled, I know I do not need. This is simply for my edification and, like Greg, I am going to disable the components in the regisrtry.

I have backed up the registry and imaged my c: drive. If I screw something up and can roll back and will have learned what not to do.

And I did read BV's guide. Several of the services I disabled he said the he disabled also.

 

[CarlTR6]

Frostmourne and Hubris, it may well be pointless; I am most certainly not experienced enough to argue that. But for me it is learning experience of how my system works. And that is not pointless to me; it is knowledge.

Have to admit to those points..

Too much time on your hands. ? LOL

Wonder what Charles at BV would say. ?

Yes, it has been raining and cold and I can't ride my motorcycle!!!

 

[gregrocker]

But for me it is learning experience of how my system works. And that is not pointless to me; it is knowledge.

I had a lot of fun exactly a year ago during the cold months Vliting the heck out of Win7 to try to see how fast I could make it run on a 528 mb laptop, or at least claw back enough RAM to run Avast.

Even though I ultimately found that there were no service edits that would speed it up any faster than running retail Win7, I learned so much about the services and Windows 7. By the end of the process, I knew they had gotten it as lean as possible and Win7 was the Black Viper.

BTW, I'm still using my old beat up 528mb laptop on surf trips with Home Premium retail, only Defender and one gadget, but normal speeds for web surfing, word processing and watching vids.