Disabling unneccesary services in XP

[Germz]

I disabled some unneccesary XP services such secondary logon, print spooler, etc via services.msc. However, after i reboot some of the services are running again according to msconfig. Why is that happening? Anyway i can disable them permantly. Plz help.

 

[NoStateofMind]

Which programs will not go away?

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Germz
I disabled some unneccesary XP services such secondary logon, print spooler, etc via services.msc. However, after i reboot some of the services are running again according to msconfig. Why is that happening? Anyway i can disable them permantly. Plz help.

As a blanket recommendation, don't mess with Windows services. If they start even though you tried to disable them, maybe they're not as "unnecessary" as you think they are 😉 And some time ago, a Forum member debunked a certain popular site's claims that you can improve Windows performance by disabling "unnecessary" services, showing no appreciable performance/resource differences before/after messing with them.

 

[Germz]

the services i tried disabling are truly are unneccesary and if i'm not using them why should they be running and using resourses?There is a guide at techpowerup that that tells you which services to disable to gain a performance boost, however there is no mention of my problem of them restarting upon reboot.

Here's what i've got so far:

Succeessfully disabled:

Error Reporting Service
Indexing Service
IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service
Remote Desktop Session Manager
Remote Registry

Services that restart after reboot:

Fast User Switching
Help and Support
Secondary Login
Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
Print Spooler
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Windows Time
SecurityCenter
Wireless Zero Configuration

I need help disabling those permenantly so they wont be running after a restart.

 

[lxskllr]

They don't use any resources if you aren't using them(they get paged out to the HD). If you don't believe me, restore the services to default and benchmark your system, then disable the ones you want and re-benchmark your computer. You won't see anything other than the normal variance in numbers between the 2.


Edit:
For clarity

 

[Germz]

Yea, i definately want to test the system with and without the services running but so far i can disable all of them as they restrt on reboot.

 

[RebateMonger]

You'll probably have better luck on forums like BlackViper.com or TechPowerup.com that specialize in things like this. Most of us IT folks worry about keeping Windows Services RUNNING, rather than trying to disable them. Not to mention the frustration of trying to help somebody perform some (normally) simple task, and it turns out they've disabled a bunch of Windows Services.

I've never found a Service that couldn't be disabled from Services.msc. But I certainly don't spend a lot of time doing it.

Windows Time Service, for sure, SHOULD stay disabled. MS has articles on disabling it when you are using a 3rd-Party time service.

Wireless Zero Configuration gets disabled all the time by 3rd-Party WiFi utilities. Again, I can't imagine why it won't stay disabled for you.

 

[Germz]

Thnx for the suggestion. I'm gonna try one of those forums like you said and see if i can get help figuring this out. I like to solve these kind of problems and its bugging the hell out of me that i can't lol

 

[dclive]

Black Viper's sites are a waste. We're saying DO NOT do that stuff.