Comments on: Windows 7 Services that can be Safely Set to MANUAL

By: John is an idiot

John is an idiot — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:58:44 +0000

I set all the above to manual. The next day i won the lottery and now I'm rich and happy. Thanks for this..

By: John

John — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:39:22 +0000

I set all the above to manual, the next day i got hacked and the hacker blew up my cpu, thanks for this..

By: Mosh Jahan

Mosh Jahan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:39:57 +0000

Windows 7 sensibly has many non essential services preset to Manual. Microsoft is clearly taking note of the XP/Vista tweaks people have come up with.

I also always disable (or manual) DNS Client service. If you're not on a corporate network or using your own DNS server, you can turn off this service. This service caches DNS queries but in reality you will not notice. I use a hosts file to block many ad serving domains and the DNS Client service never was one to work well with large hosts files.

By: Nullynull

Nullynull — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:45:03 +0000

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.

By: asdas

asdas — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:40:12 +0000

And windows defender and windows firewall if you have other security applications installed like norton internet security.

By: eraser85

eraser85 — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:15:51 +0000

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

By: Se7en

Se7en — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:41:46 +0000

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.

By: VG

VG — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:30:49 +0000

^^ 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.

By: Shafeeq

Shafeeq — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:24:07 +0000

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

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:01:50 +0000

Why would disabling Security Center be safe?