Disabling unnecessary services on Vista

[catnap1972]

Has anyone found (or made up) a page similar to the now defunct BlackViper site which told you what the individual services did and which ones you could disable without causing any problems? I'm pretty sure that at least a third of the junk that's loading on mine is useless in my situation and wouldn't mind getting some of the memory back.

 

[bsobel]

We spent a lot of time fixing machines here because of BlackViper. Short version is, if you don't know what things are, leave the default settings. If your not using them, they'll be paged out if you need the memory anyhow. A lot of work was done to optimize what services start (and when) in Vista, your not going to make a huge difference playing with it.

 

[Nothinman]

I'm pretty sure that at least a third of the junk that's loading on mine is useless in my situation and wouldn't mind getting some of the memory back.

You just admitted that you don't know what the services do and yet you're sure that at least 1/3 of them are useless?

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: bsobel
We spent a lot of time fixing machines here because of BlackViper. Short version is, if you don't know what things are, leave the default settings. If your not using them, they'll be paged out if you need the memory anyhow. A lot of work was done to optimize what services start (and when) in Vista, your not going to make a huge difference playing with it.

Precisely. You have *nothing* to gain by disabling services.

 

[Chocolate Pi]

You mean Microsoft didn't actually put in several hundred MBs of services that have no real purpose?!?! Why not?

 

[spherrod]

don't fret about the services - you'll cause more problems in the long run by playing around with them

 

[swamyg1]

I've been using this as a reference, I'm not sure how credible it is but they seem to be right on about quite a few things to do with VEESta.

http://members.rushmore.com/~jsky/id31.html

 

[stash]

Disable if you don't want the clock to synchronize automatically. Waste of resources. Update clock manually.

From the above link. One of the dumber things I've read.

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: swamyg1
I've been using this as a reference, I'm not sure how credible it is but they seem to be right on about quite a few things to do with VEESta.

http://members.rushmore.com/~jsky/id31.html

Most of those are set to manual to begin with, which will never turn on unless you use a program that needs them. So you gain nothing by disabling them. There's a few that I would absolutely leave alone (Group Policy, Link Tracking Client, the IP Stuff).

I'd set to manual or turn off tablet PC services, if you dont have one. Thats fairly obvious. Maybe security center if you can handle it on your own, or WIA if you don't use digicams. And the RAM savings are miniscule.