I have no use for anything related to: remote access, connecting to other devices, wifi (im on ethernet), bluetooth, cortana, or business related operations. I use my system for games, web browsing, entertainment, and occasional video and photo editing.
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It makes virtually no difference disabling services. You are more likeky to break things due to dependencies. Waste of time.
You've basically asked the same question here:
Looking for services that can be disabled safely to improve performanc
Why ask the same question in two different threads? As I told you- find @Paul Black 's thread.
Services do use memory though as they are housed in svchost containers so yes it is good to disable unwanted services it also minimizes DLL calls for the system.
if you don't use stuff like:
- Printing services
- Biometric stuff like example smart card, finger scanner etc
- Anything that is for something external or a hid device.
- Remote services
- radio and net services
Just do your due diligence its not really hard. Anything you are unsure of can be set to Manual and also if you disable a service check its dependencies because sometimes they can be disabled too but be careful here because sometimes dependencies are critical services ans also are depended upon by other critical services.
Blackviper's website covered this since at least XP. YMMV.
Black Viper's Windows 10 Service Configurations - Black Viper | BlackViper.Com
Hi Sinical, good to see you asking this question instead of what you had set up at the other Thread. =)
I was the one who left the comment with the red font stating that it's pretty risky to attempt to disable Services that Windows doesn't want you to disable.
If you want, you can do little searches on the internet to see which services you can disable.
One good thing to keep in mind is that it's probably best to set certain services, that aren't required, to "Manual", instead of "Disabled", so when Windows needs to run a certain Service, it has access to it.
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Let's take a rough example, so you can picture what I'm saying:
Let's say there's a Service called "Audio". And in order for your computer to play any audio (sound effect, music, etc), it would need to Enable that service first, and then it can play the audio.
Say you don't want that service to run, UNLESS your computer wants to play some audio. So once you do something that wants to play audio, your computer will look at the Audio service which isn't running, and it would turn that service on to play the audio. Once it turns on, it can stay on so it can play another audio sound effect / music / etc, at a later time within the session.
So we would set this Service to "Manual". Once the computer needs to play audio, it will Start that audio service, and keep it on so it can play other audio. Not a good idea for it to turn off that service once it is done playing some audio, then turn back on to play other audio. Takes too much memory from the computer to turn on and turn off services. It's best to turn on the service, and keep it on during the computer session.
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THAT is a rough example of a Service that I just typed right there.
SO, you can browse the internet for pages that say what Services you can set to Manual, and which ones you can Disable.
I found this for you (check out this link): Welcome
Scroll down to after the "Services" window/picture.
You can see some suggestions for some Services. And with your knowledge of how to set up a registry file, I'm sure you can find the names of Services, and what code to use for some. Also check out the link right above my post. That has other suggestions too.
Here's another one: Windows 10 Services To Disable For Enhanced Performance - NogenTech- a Tech Blog for Latest Updates & Business Ideas
(yet for this second one, you're a smart guy, and you can see that for some WEIRD tripped out reason, the second service this guy suggests to disable is the Security Center...
That is obviously a pretty dumb suggestion. So you can weed out the not-so-bright ideas from the ones that you can conclude to safely Disable / set to Manual)
So take your time, look at reliable online sources that say what Services you can completely Disable, and which ones you can set to Manual, until the computer needs to run them and such. Hope my post helps out =)
Here's the search results that I used:
services to disable windows 10 - Search
Good luck. Hope you make yourself an amazing list. =D
ALSO a good suggestion you can check out:
Enable the Page File, ONLY if you have an SSD as your main drive.
Do the research on this. A Page File can be used just as similarly as the RAM sticks on the motherboard. Kinda lets you "increase your RAM". So assuming a bunch of stuff is running in the background, then your computer has enough "RAM" to stay running pretty fast.
Check it out. Do the research on it.
Ok lets do some math then. We will target one service and demonstrate some logic.
Service we are going to target and some arbitrary information about it.
Service:XboxGipSvc
Display name:Xbox Accessory Management Service
Path:C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs -p
cli to find the PID of service.
tasklist /SVC /FI "IMAGENAME eq svchost.exe
in my case it has a PID of 5864 we can then use this PID to trackdown the exact SVChost container it is in and then look at its memory usage.
This service is using 1,500k private bytes and 7,362k Working set
Rough logic here private bytes is requested for allocation memory and working set is mapped memory plus other metrics.
I have no Xbox devices plugged in atm so therefore yes this service is useless atm and using memory that is not really needed and wasted.
Just an example.
The OP has reported problems with this unproductive task in
Can't apply/import reg file: "Not all data was successfully written" - TenForums
and is asking the same question in
Looking for services that can be disabled safely to improve performanc - TenForums
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