Project: Which Services can be Disabled WITHOUT Drastic Impact.

Hello Denis,

Try3 said:

I have never seen anybody conduct such a thorough survey. Well done for posting your results so far.

Thank you, but it is just the way that I am. I always try and get as much information as possible, I think this is partly due to my OCD.

Try3 said:

I hope you don't mind but would you also post any positive results that you are able to identify & quantify. I can only think of a few that are quantifiable:-
- Change in time taken for an SFC /scannow run [which would have to be no-faults-found runs to allow times to be comparable]. {Reported in both absolute & % terms}
- Change in time taken for disabling & rebuilding the search index. {Reported in both absolute & % terms}
- Change in time taken to boot up from shutdown to Desktop displayed, assuming auto-login. {Reported in both absolute & % terms}

Such sample results will help others judge whether or not to try disabling those services themselves.

I will see what I can do as this is on the Laptop that is going to receive a Clean Install anyway, but that shouldn't make a difference. I will have to reset the ones that I have changed already back to default etc FIRST.

I do NOT know if the results will offer any real indication though unfortunately, because the purpose of this exercise is to gain better performance when using the system. Obviously I need to get to a stage where I know which Services I am actually going to change. At the moment, there are probably a dozen, which to be honest is NOT a very good statistical coverage considering the number of Services that are actually running.

I will see what I can do though.

Hello Matthew,

Matthew Wai said:

How much more RAM is available after disabling the services previously running?
How much less time does it take to restart Windows?
I have a mere 6 GB of RAM, and I have disabled only Windows Update Medic Service.

What were your findings, RAM gain, and time difference etc when you Disabled and tested the Windows Update Medic Service?

Matthew Wai said:

I did no test because I thought Windows Update Medic Service alone would make no/negligible difference.
I disabled it only for controlling Windows Update, not for performance/ sparing RAM.

OK thanks.

Paul Black said:

... the purpose of this exercise is to gain better performance when using the system.

Paul,

Yes, and I was just trying to think of some performance measures that were both reproducible by others & quantifiable.
- I wish I could think of better ones but I can't.
- I don't think that available RAM is a useful measure because it is merely a means to an end not an end in itself.

Denis

Hello Denis,

Try3 said:

Yes, and I was just trying to think of some performance measures that were both reproducible by others & quantifiable.
- I wish I could think of better ones but I can't.
- I don't think that available RAM is a useful measure because it is merely a means to an end not an end in itself.

I agree. My aim is to Disable the Services that will NOT be needed by MY System which have been reported to run and use resources in the background. There are Services that are still Running even though I have either Turned Off or Disabled certain aspects using REG files, so they are an unnecessary drain on the System and RAM etc.

This is an old Laptop [ 10+ years ] and runs brilliantly considering, I just want to squeeze a little bit more out of it though!

Try3 said:

I was just trying to think of some performance measures that were both reproducible by others & quantifiable.

CPU tab - number of processes, threads and handles. That is pretty straightforward.
Bigger number those stresses CPU and can cause lags and overall sluggishness.
When I had a minimal setup running, I had 12 windows services, 40 processes.
I think there was about 500 threads and 15000 handles. It was really light. Now:

TairikuOkami said:

CPU tab - number of processes, threads and handles. That is pretty straightforward.
Bigger number those stresses CPU and can cause lags and overall sluggishness.
When I had a minimal setup running, I had 12 windows services, 40 processes.
I think there was about 500 threads and 15000 handles. It was really light. Now:

Sorry but what are you suggesting that Paul measures as an indicator of improved performance then?

Denis