Windows services are small applications that are essential for many processes to run on your computer and run in the background. All services run with svchost.exe. (more info about svchost.exe can be found here). but most of them are unnessacary and consume valuble memory and slow down your computer. But with a little common sense one can decide what services to stop. This is a simple guide on how to disable and stop services.
DISCLAIMER: stopping any service without knowing what you’re doing can be harmful to your os.
Step 1: Right click on my computer and click on manage
Step 2: Select the services tab
Step 3: Find out what services are running by sorting them based on status.
Step 4: After deciding what services to disable, right click and click on properties
Step 5: Disable the service by using the drop down menu. and then stop it by clicking on stop.
This window should appear for stopping services
A few services which are safe to stop are, but may disable a little functionality:
- Error reporting service. Unless you send an error details to microsoft which doesen’t even have any advantage, you can disable this.
- Help and support. If you don’t use the help and support system for windows you can disable this.
- Machine debug manager: You really don’t need this, unless you’re some kernel debugger, but if you were one, you’d not be reading this anyways.
- Netmeeting
- Indexing service [most people don’t need this]
- remote registry
- Wireless zero configuration (if you’re not using wireless)
Feel free to add more services in the comments section.
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