[Guide] Windows XP Services List that can be Disabled Safely

When we install Windows XP, there are many services running in background and consuming system resources. Among them many services are not important and can be set to manual to make your windows running faster.

In this tutorial, we’ll tell you about the Windows XP services which can be safely disabled or set to MANUAL to speed up Windows XP.

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Let’s start the tutorial:

1. Right-click on My Computer icon on desktop and select Manage, it’ll open a window, in which go to: Services & Application -> Services. To disable or Set a service to MANUAL, double-click on the service and select the desired option in Startup list box.

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You can also open the same by going to Administrative Tools and open Computer Management.

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, then windows will not be able to start it and will give ERROR.

So here is the list of services that can be safely set to MANUAL (Many of them may be disabled automatically on some systems):

  • Alerter
  • Computer Browser
  • Distributed Link Tracking Client (If your computer is not connected to any network)
  • Fast User Switching Capability (It’ll remove Switch Users feature)
  • Indexing service
  • Internet Connection Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing
  • Messenger
  • Remote Registry (You can set it to DISABLED for Security purposes)
  • Secondary Logon
  • Server
  • System Restore (If you don’t use System Restore feature)
  • TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Service (If you are not in a workgroup network)
  • Uninterruptible Power Supply
  • Upload Manager
  • Wireless Zero Configuration

PS: You can see the details of each service so that you can determine whether it should be disabled or not.

Further read:

Master Tutorial to Make Windows XP Super Fast

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Also Check:

[Guide] Which Windows Vista Services are Safe to Disable?

[Guide] Which Windows 7 Services are Safe to Disable?

[Guide] Which Windows 8/8.1 Services are Safe to Disable?

[Guide] Which Windows 10 Services are Safe to Disable?

Published in: Windows XP

About the author: Vishal Gupta (also known as VG) has been awarded with Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award. He holds Masters degree in Computer Applications (MCA). He has written several tech articles for popular newspapers and magazines and has also appeared in tech shows on various TV channels.

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  1. finally a guru of very very solid workarounds ’bout these os’s, with a layman’s explanation, you’re site brings about the purest of joys to computer ‘non-techie’ addicts, and envy to those upper echelon of intellects who cannot de-dither how to do these and those without being teacher-ish, technically.

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