HIYAS, I would be curious if there's a verified list of generally undesirable services that are safe to disable or delete without having negative impact on Windows function. So far I have deleted these services - Windows Defender (removed) - Security Center (deleted) - Windows Firewall (not autostart) - all XBox related services (deleted) - Windows Error Reporting (deleted) - Diagnostics Tracking Service (deleted) Of course I want more, there's never lack of annoyances.
I wonder what you gain from disabling/deleting them. While I agree, for example, that the Xbox ones seem pretty useless if you don't use any of this stuff, I don't see any point deleting them because they're all set to manual start anyways so they don't consume any system resources. Same goes for error reporting. Funny side note: People always complain about services, but at the same time I've seen many of them running all kind of weird stuff like auto updaters from Adobe, Firefox, Google, Java etc. in the background...
In my experience, using tools like NTlite to delete services breaks something down the line. It may install fine, and appear to function correctly, but eventually Windows Update stops functioning, or a program (first or third party) depends on a library that was removed in the course of deleting something that wasn't meant to be deleted. Or even a driver depends on such libraries. Disabling is fine, as you can always re-enable them later if it causes problems. But deletion is just going to break stuff and it isn't going to save much space.
There's certainly alot more to remove, for exacmple I'm getting obstructions when wanting to install Comodo Firewall, and it's obvious these obstructions come from Windows, not 3rd party installer. Hehe, I disable these as well
I personally have the following services disabled on a fresh install: Device Association Service Diagnostic Policy Service Distributed Link Tracking Client Geolocation Service IP Helper Net.Tcp Port Sharing Service Program Compatibility Assistant Service Remote Registry Routing and Remote Access Security Center Server Smart Card SSDP Discovery TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Themes Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service Workstation I am trying to solve the notification on boot that says that security center is not running. I don't disable Defender since I can never seem to stop it cleanly and it either seems to reactivate itself later or cause more problems.
this OS is a cloud base service i dont think disabling all does services is a good idea. but to each is own
I realize that at least one removed service broke my OS so I had to reinstall. Anyway a list of services verified to be safe to disable/remove would come very helpful (I'm sure WinDefend is safe on lower level than Automatic) I don't agree, Windows 10 still run offline so it's not cloud based OS.
This is a list of services that are disabled on my Windows 10 Pro. I have been using this setup with Windows 8.1 for a long time without any issues, now updated the list to include a few new unnecessary services. Note that you will of course lose some features by doing this. Also, in my experience, services will never be automatically enabled after installing Windows updates. Do not delete services. Code: ActiveX Installer (AxInstSV) AllJoyn Router Service Application Layer Gateway Service BitLocker Drive Encryption Service Block Level Backup Engine Service Bluetooth Handsfree Service Bluetooth Support Service CDPSvc Certificate Propagation Computer Browser Device Association Service DevQuery Background Discovery Broker Diagnostic Policy Service Diagnostic Service Host Diagnostic System Host Diagnostics Tracking Service Distributed Link Tracking Client dmwappushservice Downloaded Maps Manager Encrypting File System (EFS) File History Service Function Discovery Provider Host Function Discovery Resource Publication Geolocation Service HomeGroup Listener HomeGroup Provider Hyper-V Data Exchange Service Hyper-V Guest Service Interface Hyper-V Guest Shutdown Service Hyper-V Heartbeat Service Hyper-V Remote Desktop Virtualization Service Hyper-V Time Synchronization Service Hyper-V VM Session Service Hyper-V Volume Shadow Copy Requestor Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) Internet Explorer ETW Collector Service IP Helper KtmRm for Distributed Transaction Coordinator Link-Layer Topology Discovery Mapper Microsoft (R) Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Microsoft Account Sign-in Assistant Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service Microsoft Storage Spaces SMP Net.Tcp Port Sharing Service Netlogon Network Connected Devices Auto-Setup Network Connection Broker Network Connectivity Assistant Offline Files Optimize drives Peer Name Resolution Protocol Peer Networking Grouping Peer Networking Identity Manager Performance Counter DLL Host Performance Logs & Alerts PNRP Machine Name Publication Service Portable Device Enumerator Service Problem Reports and Solutions Control Panel Support Program Compatibility Assistant Service Quality Windows Audio Video Experience Remote Access Auto Connection Manager Remote Access Connection Manager Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator Remote Registry Retail Demo Service Routing and Remote Access Secondary Logon Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol Service Security Center Sensor Data Service Sensor Monitoring Service Sensor Service Server Smart Card Smart Card Device Enumeration Service Smart Card Removal Policy SNMP Trap SSDP Discovery Still Image Acquisition Events Storage Service Superfetch Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service TP AutoConnect Service TP VC Gateway Service UPnP Device Host VMware Workstation Server WebClient Windows Backup Windows Biometric Service Windows Connect Now - Config Registrar Windows Encryption Provider Host Service Windows Error Reporting Service Windows Event Collector Windows Mobile Hotspot Service Windows Presentation Foundation Font Cache 3.0.0.0 Windows Remote Management (WS-Management) Windows Search Wired AutoConfig WLAN AutoConfig WMI Performance Adapter WWAN AutoConfig Xbox Live Auth Manager Xbox Live Game Save Xbox Live Networking Service
This is not safe in Windows 10. had it disabled for a while and search in menu/control panel etc. stopped to work. Indexins service is no more separated from Windows Search.
I don't understand what do people gain by doing this, changing visual element is one thing but messing with pre-installed apps and services that are not running most of the time seems like an overkill. Messing with apps with create problems because MS will continue to replace W32 modules with XAML and soon after TH2 or Redstone something is bound to break. Messing with system services is guaranteed to break something down the line and then the same users will come here asking why WU says FU and cry about it. Unless you are using something like Pentium 4 with 256 MB ram you won't see any performance improvement anyways. Maybe the OCD in people tingles. After you do that many edits to an propitiatory OS that we don't fully understand and most things remain undocumented, when something goes wrong you won't know what to fix.
I second that There's links to older Oses not Win10 blackviper link where good FOR OLDER OS. Me too i whant to kill uneeded services, for the moment i simply stop and disable them, not remove them ...
When you say ‘services” you include apps, which are really different. Apps As regards apps, my view is that if the system gives you the option to uninstall them, then it’s OK to do so. But if it doesn’t and you use tricks, scripts and third party tools, you’re taking a risk. Furthermore, such risk is unjustified by potential gains, because if not started, these apps won’t bother you. So it’s better to just stop them from starting, e.g. thru the Task Manager. System services Once, while a novice under XP, I made it a hobby to disable superfluous services, and I did a lot of reading to make sure nothing vital was disabled, Then, suddenly, my system started acting funny. Without being sure it was caused by the services, I re-enabled them and left them alone since. Now I’m wiser than then. There are several problems with disabling services: 1 They don’t consume appreciable resources and you won’t gain any noticeable improvement in performance by disabling them. 2 There are often unexpected inter-dependencies between services, that only MS knows. 3 Any problem caused may not manifest itself immediately, but (much) later when you try to do something for the first time. 4. Systems differ, and you may have problems where others didn’t. 5. Experts, however well meaning, don’t know everything, and it’s not their system that will be messed up. My advice: 1 Uninstall apps that the system allows you to. 2 Stop apps from starting unnecessarily. 3 Leave everything else, especially system services, alone.
disable the firewall service only if you got another firewall what a genius!!. It is not, not yet. Thats w$ 11, where you pay a monthly fee to use YOUR hardware.
Leave. Services. Alone. It's wise to uninstall or disable useless Apps/Program instead, especially if they launch automatically in background when Windows starts.