Black Vipers Windows 10 Service Configurations (VERY USEFUL INFORMATION)

Black Viper has been around for absolutely ages. I'm more surprised than anything when someone on a Windows platform who regulars in a tech based forum doesn't know the name. That said I'm in my late 20's and if you're younger it would be understandable that you may not have heard of him. After his XP services guide got popular most of the information he passed on got regurgitated all over the web, and as you know 90% of the web never gives sources/credit.

 

I have a hard time believing so many folks never heard of BV, I've used his configuration settings before with XP many years ago. I also reference Black Viper for tweaking Vista, 7 and 8.
Thanks for the heads up on 10!

 

It's mostly because I don't eat Windows for breakfast.

Edit: That and I never found this whole "tweaking" necessary until Win10.

 

Wow, I didn't know BV was still around, he's been doing this sort of thing for years, back to at least 2000, maybe even before that.

 

@TCM: It's a different kind of tweaking. We try to squeeze as much performance out of our PCs because the programs that We use (Cubase, Native Instruments, Arturia) Take an -enormous- amount of CPU and memory resources.

It's got a lot better since I updated my hardware. But I still need to keep my machine at tip-top performance.

Of course, Your mileage may vary.

:MJ

 

Used his tweaks since xp days because lag & slow performance on older system and now we have faster systems with more ram so no need of it but still useful to who have older systems running 10.

PS: he hasn't update one click reg creation tool its still till windows 7.

 

I think my earlier post about "hacking" XP (via Black Viper) was not quite accurate. The info was more along the lines of:

XP services - a description of what they were for and if it would benefit your environment to disable them.

Making the administrator account visible - sure, we all know it now, but back then XP was new and M$ wasn't making things like this obvious.

Putting a Control Panel icon on the desktop. Same as above. Just a lot of info you couldn't easily find elsewhere back then.

 

I give credit where credit is due, and Black Viper has certainly put in his time and effort over the years! Never charges a fee for his informative guides, either. Anyone who takes the time to actually read the guide will know how much time and effort went into creating it, and making it available to people who choose to take advantage of the information contained within.

What I find to be revealing in this thread is the number of senior members who have never heard of him. Amazing......

But I digress. What I think should be the focus of this thread, is the information in the OP. The guide is the main focus, and I have yet to read of anyone giving the guide a thumbs up, or bringing to light any errors or misinformation within that guide. I believe that all members of this forum would be well served if this thread took a turn in that direction.. Just my opinion, of course. I suspect that some will still prefer to just talk about the person, rather than discuss the merits of the actual guide. Human nature, after all....

 

Windows 10 config BV makes no mention of privacy, or setting the system for disabling M$ tracking

 

Do you know if he has (or will) make any of his recommended configs available as reg files as he used to do?? I've not read the content at your link yet, sorry. I've known of him and appreciated his work for years.

 

@acura and what's so special about that website and list of default windows services?

 

Me too, this is the first time..

 

I have also been following (and trusting) his service tweaks for ten years or so now. Always reliable and trustworthy service tweak information and details regarding Windows services. It's good to see that he has kept going all of these years.

 

@Carol666: Black Viper has made a list of services that can be turned off, depending on what the machine is being used for.
This allows you to optimize your computer and get the best performance.

As with all tweaks, make sure that you set a restore point or make a backup before turning off any services. And make a note of the original state of the service before you turn it off. (Start, Delayed Start, etc..)
This will help you if you find a situation where something fails.

I find that doing them one at a time makes it easier to see the results.

Of course, there are services that rely on each other; make a note of those states as well.

Be safe.

:MJ