We have posted service guides for Windows XP and Vista in past and now its turn of Windows 7. In this tutorial we'll learn about the services which are not essential and can be safely set to MANUAL to speed up your system:
1. Right-click on Computer icon on desktop and select Manage, it'll open a new window. Now go to Services & Applications -> Services. You can also open the same from Administrative Tools -> Computer Management. Or you can directly open "Services" list by providing services.msc command in RUN or Startmenu search box.
2. Now you can set the unnecessary services to DISABLED or MANUAL. Just double-click on any service and select the desired option in Startup type list box.
NOTE: Always set the service to MANUAL, never disable it, so that whenever Windows needs to start a service it can easily start and use it. If you set any service to DISABLED, Windows will not be able to start it and will give some error messages.
Here is a list of services that can be safely set to MANUAL:
- Application Experience
- Computer Browser (If your computer is not connected to any network)
- Desktop Window Manager Session Manager (If you don't use Aero theme)
- Diagnostic Policy Service
- Distributed Link Tracking Client
- IP Helper
- Offline Files
- Portable Device Enumerator Service
- Print Spooler (If you don't have Printer)
- Protected Storage
- Remote Registry (Always disable it for Security purposes)
- Secondary Logon
- Security Center
- Server (If your computer is not connected to any network)
- Tablet PC Input Service
- TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
- Themes ( If you use Windows Classic theme)
- Windows Error Reporting Service
- Windows Media Center Service Launcher
- Windows Search (If you don't use Windows Search feature frequently)
- Windows Time (If you don't want to update system tray clock time using Internet)
PS: You can see the details of each service to determine whether you should disable it or not.
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chris
thanks Vishal
Sora
Finally a tweak for windows 7 Vishal you should make a master tutorial to make windows 7 super fast too
Ratchet
alot of these were already manual anyways, and one was even disabled! and no ididnt change it before, but thanks for the guide!
Tom
Why would disabling Security Center be safe?
Shafeeq
any idea how i can manually delete a service from this list?
I need to remove mysql service, but it didn't get removed on uninstallation (no idea what went wrong there!)
Thanks,
Shafeeq
VG
^^ Open regdit and goto:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
Under this key, look for a key related to MySQL, when you find the key, delete it. Take a backup of the key before deleting it.
Se7en
For some reason turning off TCP/IP Netbios Helper service messes up my network i.e., I can connect to the internet but not to other comps; this is peculiar since none of the other machines (XP Pros) use NetBIOS.
Just make sure when you tweak various services, things still work the way they should.
eraser85
Windows 7 is not like WinXP where you had to disable to services... here disabling a service means losing a feature (like all the network goodness introduced in win7) and doesn't even give you a speed boost due to the highly optimized architecture behind services..
just use win7 as it comes.. it's blazing fast and with lots of useful features
asdas
And windows defender and windows firewall if you have other security applications installed like norton internet security.
Nullynull
Has anyone noticed the Windows 7 services have a nasty habit of the the start-up type reverting back. Vista was bad enough with the read-only services, now MS is saddling users with stealth reverting services? I really wish software devs would remember their software is running on the users hardware.