Services Galore

My laptop has become very sloooow.
So I MSConfig-ed it and went to Startup tab and turned all off.
Then I went through them all and turned on only the few I thought were
really necessary. It boot and it is a little faster.

But for services I am stuck. I do not know what to leave on.
Is there a list someplace that I could follow?

I see some are "Essential=Yes" so I suppose I should leave them on.
But what about all the others?
Turn all off except essentials?
Will necessary services start on demand if needed?



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On 1/10/2014 5:28 PM, OldGuy wrote:
My laptop has become very sloooow.
So I MSConfig-ed it and went to Startup tab and turned all off.
Then I went through them all and turned on only the few I thought were really necessary. It boot and it is a little faster.

But for services I am stuck. I do not know what to leave on.
Is there a list someplace that I could follow?

I see some are "Essential=Yes" so I suppose I should leave them on.
But what about all the others?
Turn all off except essentials?
Will necessary services start on demand if needed?


Look at it this way.

Some of us here, have no problems with WinXP, and have
the standard services as installed from the installer CD.

That should tell you, that "clubbing baby seals" isn't necessary :-)
Find some other way to get your revenge.

Perhaps you have added something to the computer.

To give an example, I have a Windows 7 laptop. I added a Logitech
webcam package (about 100MB of garbage), and a Canon printer package
(more garbage). Since the laptop is a single core unit, it's gutless.
And just a few services installed by those, were enough to slow the machine
down. So I removed the webcam package and the printer package and all is
fine again. There is a "basics only" printer package, without the fluff,
and why it isn't perfect (doesn't accept printer preferences properly),
I'll take that over the alternative. And for the webcam, I'm restricted
to less than maximum camera resolution, by not having the bloated software
added. Such is life.

An AV program could do it.

Perhaps your hard drive has flipped into PIO mode.
It gives all the symptoms of a slowdown, as every disk operation ends
up slower that way. (See the "Workaround" section here, as there
is a manual method of repair, if it is actually in PIO mode.)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817472

There are other things than services that can slow things down.
Even a missing video driver, might make things a bit slower.
My backup machine, when it runs Windows 8, the screen is a bit slow.
But that's because there is no NVidia driver for the video card (too old),
and so a Microsoft driver emulates stuff instead. And that's slower.
There's a zillion reasons a computer can be slow, and hardly
any of the fixes are "instantaneous" "just download this and fixed"
type fixes. You have to use your brain a bit, sniff around,
check the Event viewer, do benchmarks (HDTune), and so on.

Paul

OldGuy wrote in
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My laptop has become very sloooow.
So I MSConfig-ed it and went to Startup tab and turned all off.
Then I went through them all and turned on only the few I thought
were really necessary. It boot and it is a little faster.

But for services I am stuck. I do not know what to leave on.
Is there a list someplace that I could follow?

I see some are "Essential=Yes" so I suppose I should leave them
on. But what about all the others?
Turn all off except essentials?
Will necessary services start on demand if needed?


I use this as a guide
http://www.blackviper.com/service-co...ipers-windows-
xp-x86-32-bit-service-pack-3-service-configurations/

He has 3 configurations: "safe", tweaked, and bare-bones. He says
"safe" is what 95% of users can use.

He also has service configurations for other versions of Windows, from
2000 to 8.1.

Dee

On 1/11/2014 8:54 AM, Dee wrote:
OldGuy wrote in
:

My laptop has become very sloooow.
So I MSConfig-ed it and went to Startup tab and turned all off.
Then I went through them all and turned on only the few I thought
were really necessary. It boot and it is a little faster.

But for services I am stuck. I do not know what to leave on.
Is there a list someplace that I could follow?

I see some are "Essential=Yes" so I suppose I should leave them
on. But what about all the others?
Turn all off except essentials?
Will necessary services start on demand if needed?


I use this as a guide
http://www.blackviper.com/service-co...ipers-windows-
xp-x86-32-bit-service-pack-3-service-configurations/

He has 3 configurations: "safe", tweaked, and bare-bones. He says
"safe" is what 95% of users can use.

He also has service configurations for other versions of Windows, from
2000 to 8.1.

Dee


Except, by offering this advice, a user runs off, shoots
themselves in the foot, and then they come back and ask...

"I tried to run X today, and I'm getting an error dialog.
Can someone tell me what Service to turn on ?"

That's the reward for sending them off to change those.
The people who turn off their services, they don't keep
careful notes about what they changed, and then they
expect someone here to be Kreskin and guess which service
needs to be turned on again :-)

Paul

On 1/11/2014 8:54 AM, Dee wrote:
OldGuy wrote in
:

My laptop has become very sloooow.
So I MSConfig-ed it and went to Startup tab and turned all off.
Then I went through them all and turned on only the few I thought
were really necessary. It boot and it is a little faster.

But for services I am stuck. I do not know what to leave on.
Is there a list someplace that I could follow?

I see some are "Essential=Yes" so I suppose I should leave them
on. But what about all the others?
Turn all off except essentials?
Will necessary services start on demand if needed?


I use this as a guide
http://www.blackviper.com/service-co...ipers-windows-
xp-x86-32-bit-service-pack-3-service-configurations/

He has 3 configurations: "safe", tweaked, and bare-bones. He says
"safe" is what 95% of users can use.

He also has service configurations for other versions of Windows, from
2000 to 8.1.

Dee


Except, by offering this advice, a user runs off, shoots
themselves in the foot, and then they come back and ask...

"I tried to run X today, and I'm getting an error dialog.
Can someone tell me what Service to turn on ?"

That's the reward for sending them off to change those.
The people who turn off their services, they don't keep
careful notes about what they changed, and then they
expect someone here to be Kreskin and guess which service
needs to be turned on again :-)

Paul

But I thought that was who you were.



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OldGuy wrote in
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My laptop has become very sloooow.
So I MSConfig-ed it and went to Startup tab and turned all off.
Then I went through them all and turned on only the few I thought
were really necessary. It boot and it is a little faster.

But for services I am stuck. I do not know what to leave on.
Is there a list someplace that I could follow?

I see some are "Essential=Yes" so I suppose I should leave them
on. But what about all the others?
Turn all off except essentials?
Will necessary services start on demand if needed?


I use this as a guide
http://www.blackviper.com/service-co...ipers-windows-
xp-x86-32-bit-service-pack-3-service-configurations/

He has 3 configurations: "safe", tweaked, and bare-bones. He says
"safe" is what 95% of users can use.

He also has service configurations for other versions of Windows, from
2000 to 8.1.

Dee

That looks educational. Thanks.



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