unnecessary win services

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START -> RUN -> services.msc

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I see lots of services that are started. Do you guys know any unnecessary services that doesn't need to start? so i can disable them?

Thanks

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Windows loads a crap load of services that you don't need. I would send you to a really good site but it's down at the moment. Its run by a guy who calls himself black viper and he has documented the bare minimum that you need to run windows and what each service does. If I find a link to a working site I'll post it.

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http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12

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You REALLY DONT need the telnet service. :)

Set it to disabled!

There are many sites which aave tutorials for what are not needed but becareful one time I followed that and my computer act strange.. =/

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me too... but now is fine for me... just disable what is really safe to disable... but after all have to decide what services are needed... and what are not...

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If I get it wrong is the way to the default setting?

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you may want to change a few at a time... if anything goes wrong, then will be easier to know which one went wrong...

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You can safely disable the Indexing Service.

SSDP and Universal Plug and Play are used for file transfers on things like MSN Messenger and other software. I've safely disabled those and still had files transfers work fine on MSN, only rarely will they not work.

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I have the following window services started

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>net start

These Windows services are started:

Alerter

Automatic Updates

AVG7 Alert Manager Server

AVG7 Update Service

COM+ Event System

Cryptographic Services

DCOM Server Process Launcher

DHCP Client

DNS Client

Error Reporting Service

Event Log

Fast User Switching Compatibility

Help and Support

Machine Debug Manager

Network Connections

Network Location Awareness (NLA)

Plug and Play

Protected Storage

Remote Access Connection Manager

Remote Procedure Call (RPC)

Security Accounts Manager

Security Center

Server

Shell Hardware Detection

spkrmon

SSDP Discovery Service

System Event Notification

System Restore Service

TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper

Telephony

Terminal Services

Themes

TrueVector Internet Monitor

User Profile Hive Cleanup

WebClient

Windows Audio

Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)

Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)

Windows Management Instrumentation

Windows Time

Windows User Mode Driver Framework

Wireless Zero Configuration

Workstation

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Windows loads a crap load of services that you don't need. I would send you to a really good site but it's down at the moment. Its run by a guy who calls himself black viper and he has documented the bare minimum that you need to run windows and what each service does. If I find a link to a working site I'll post it.

Here's a working link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041128020314/.../service411.htm

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Thanks guys...

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Thanks for that. :)

This site is a very good resource for windows processes.

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wcescomm.ex, can it be disabled.....and can I still use usb to connect things?

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I disabled some on my machine that I never really use at all.

Security Center

Indexing Service

SSDP Discovery Service

System Restore (I turned this off back in what.. February.)

Telnet

Universal Plug & Plug (SSDP and UPNP are needed for some sharing applications, MSN, Trillian and other applications like that)