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2/3 of Services NOT Needed
Many services are not needed, and can safely be disabled. Black Viper
provides lots of guidance, but it comes down to a tedious trial 'n error process to reliably determine what's needed and more importantly what's not. Services consume resources. e.g. - I found boot times with all enabled to be far longer than with only those I needed, 50 out of 151. I have documented everything as captures of the MSCONFIG screens. Anyone's welcomed to take a look. |
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2/3 of Services NOT Needed
Services consume resources Mostly false. If there's loaded, there consuming something however minor. When they're actively doing something uneeded, something else. And loading takes a lot of boot time which most hate. But thanks for useful info. |
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2/3 of Services NOT Needed
"Paul" wrote
| Services consume resources | | Mostly false. | | For most users, this kind of (Black Viper) customization is excessive. | This has been discussed numerous times. There's sound logic in leaving it all alone because it takes some work to figure it out. There's no one-size-fits-all config for services. For most users, there's no sense paying attention to anything, just as most people don't do their own oil changes or monitor their own medical condition. If something happens, "most people" will call for help. But there are good reasons to deal with services: 1) Even if they don't use a lot of resources, it's increasing the complexity of what's running. There's no reason to discourage basic housekeeping. 2) Many services are running by default because the default configuration is corporate workstation. Many of those services are unsafe and unnecessary on a stand-alone computer. In short, nothing should be running that allows anything to call in from outside unless it's something you specifically need. And nothing should be calling out unless you need it. For me that includes anything from Microsoft, including Windows Update. It also includes frivolous things like Windows Time. But some people like to keep their clock accurate to the second. Go figure. For those people there's Windows Time. The first time most people knew of all this was when XP came out and hackers started exploiting the Messenger service to create scam popups onscreen remotely. Messenger is designed to allow corporate IT to send out announcements to all workers, like, "Long weekend coming up. Please don't forget to turn off lights when you leave today." So why was that running on XP by default? Because Microsoft configures all computers, by default, to be corporate workstations. What did MS do about it? In typical finger-in-the-dike fashion they set Messenger not to run by default. But lots of other things still do. Remote Registry?.... Don't get me started. |
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2/3 of Services NOT Needed
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| And loading takes a lot of boot time which most hate. | And also increases the likelihood of boot conflicts. |
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