What services can I disable in Windows 7? 7. How to disable and enable Windows services?

Not everyone has powerful computers with the most modern hardware, and so many users in our country are concerned about performance issues. As you can understand, money for the purchase of new equipment can not always be distinguished.

What to do in this case? First of all, you need to try to optimize the work of your computer, making it more efficient. Help in this difficult matter can disable some unnecessary services that significantly slow down the OS, without performing any vital functions.

Help our search is called our article. Important! In no case do not turn everything off, because in this case the effect will be directly opposite: it is often necessary to see "specialists" who were forced to reinstall the system. It happened because of ill-considered "optimizations", after which the system began to work simply inadequately, constantly flying out onto the blue screen.

So, what services can I disable in Windows 7?

What it is?

It would be wrong to engage in some kind of reasoning, without introducing readers to the course of the matter. What kind of service are these? And why can their disconnection positively affect the performance of your machine?

So that's it. Services are applications that run and run in the background. The user does not see them, and sometimes does not even suspect about their existence.

They perform different functions: provide the operation of search in the OS, some services help protect programs from their pirated use, and others are needed to ensure compatibility or software performance in specific conditions.

In a word, those "experts" who are absolutely wrong are saying that they are absolutely useless. In general, the question of what services can be disabled in Windows 7, you should ask the owners not all computers.

When and where do they need to be turned off?

If you have a more or less modern machine with 3-4 GB of RAM and a dual-core processor, then you can not read further. Having disconnected even a couple of dozen services, you will not notice any performance gain.

But the owners of weak netbooks and just old desktops that still remember the output of XP, these tips can come in handy.

How to turn on / off

Unlike other professional services, the management of services is quite simple. To do this, click on the "Start" button, select "Control Panel" there, and find the item "Administration" in the list. After you select it, a dialog box opens, in which you need to open the "Services" tab.

We find the item we need in the list, select it with the left mouse button. In the General tab, click on the "Stop" button. Accordingly, if you want to run, you need to activate "Start". That's all!

TOP of potentially dangerous services

So which services can I disable in Windows 7? Let's give them a complete list. Note that they can all be used by malicious programs to gain access to your computer.

So, first of all we disable the "Remote Registry". In 99% of the operation of this service for the average user is absolutely not necessary. The same category includes Remote Desktop Services. If you do not need a "Remote Assistance", then her work is potentially unsafe.

When you are in charge of only one home computer (or a pair), which you do not plan to combine with other machines in the local network, then absolutely painlessly you can get rid of the "Computer Explorer". In addition, all those who do not have a home network will not be helped by Terminal Services.

And what services Windows can be turned off for the sake of ensuring their own security? We strongly recommend that you immediately remove the "Secondary login", because this service allows you to run processes on behalf of another user, which is potentially unsafe.

Unnecessary services

Of course, the owners of obsolete machines does not come in handy "Tablet PC Input Service". What kind of touchscreen is there when the computer is already five to seven years old! In this case, its deactivation is an absolutely necessary optimization of Windows 7, which will help to free up already scarce resources.

If the printer is not connected to your computer (and not planned), then it is completely painless to turn off the "Print queue". Keep in mind that this operation is strongly not advised to conduct students, accountants and other categories of users to whom the printer may come in handy in the future. Believe, to understand the reasons for its inefficiency is very difficult!

Exactly the same can be said about the service "Windows Image Acquisition Service (WIA)". If you use a scanner, then you should not touch it in any case. If such equipment you do not have and close, then nothing terrible from turning it off just will not happen.

Similarly, you can remove "Smart Card", because the average home user has not even heard of it, let alone regular use.

Other options

And if in your charge there is just a couple of home PCs that are included in the personal network? What services can I disable in Windows 7 then?

First, you are unlikely to use ReadyBoost. Here it is necessary to make a "lyrical digression". Keep in mind that for older computers this function can be very useful, but only if certain conditions are met.

Roughly speaking, its essence is to use a flash drive as an analog of the swap file. If (!) You use a high-quality flash drive connected through the USB 2.0 interface and above, and your computer has little RAM, but there is a fairly powerful processor, then when you activate it, you can get a real performance boost.

But if you even know a little about computers, then you yourself can say that such a combination is almost never found. So this service can be safely turned off.

With the same success it is possible to send "Fax" there, which is not needed by anyone at home. In general, all the unnecessary services of Windows 7 are most often aimed at supporting the programs, services and devices that were included in this version of the OS just for the sake of "tradition tribute", since in reality many of them have not been used for a long time.

Disk Maintenance

Approximately in the same position was "Disk Defragmentation." Of course, to disconnect it to ordinary users is not worth it. But if you have some third-party utility, then in this case the default defragmenter can be turned off.

Owners of the same SSD disconnecting it is all the more necessary, since "Seven" recognizes such disks not always. It is dangerous to perform a regular defragmentation, which is not needed at all. The point is that performing this operation reduces the resource of rewriting cycles, which until now is the bottleneck of this technology.

Out-of-date services for old machines

By the way, many programs that run Windows 7 optimization do exactly the same thing. Being the owner of the video card NVidia is not the top-end version, boldly deactivate the service with the complex name "NVidia Stereoscopic 3D Driver Service". As you can recognize from the title, it gives nothing to the owners of old computers. Approximately the same recommendations apply to "Adaptive Brightness Control".

This system is relevant for modern laptops, which can dynamically change the level of illumination, focusing on environmental conditions. Naturally, in old models such a miracle is not, and most of modern monitors are not equipped with anything like that.

And how to relate to "Offline Files"? This service is responsible for the cache of these files, for the ability to access them at any appropriate time. If you do not use them (that is, enter the number of 97% of users), then the function can be turned off painlessly.

Attention! If the start field is "Manual", then you do not need to disconnect or change anything. You can only make it worse.

For old desktops

And what services can I disable in Windows 7, which is installed on the old computer? First, you are unlikely to find it useful "Bluetooth Support Service". But! If you connect with your phone on the "blue tooth", then strongly do not recommend it to deactivate, because the results you do not please.

For laptops and netbooks

Since in the overwhelming majority of cases old computers of this type can not boast of a long operating time on one charge, it is necessary to exert maximum efforts to release resources. For this, you can even sacrifice a bit of security.

Your computer rarely "pleases" you with departures on a blue screen? Then it is hardly useful "Windows Error Logging Service". This way you will not only release a certain amount of system resources, but also be able to clear some space on your hard drive. In addition, pay attention to the "Client tracking the changed links." What does he do?

Tracks all links and changes in the NTFS file system. Of course, this function is necessary to ensure the security of the file system, but with some serious failure, you still can not save the files that were on the local hard disk.

And what services can be disabled in order to optimize the work? First, an overwhelmingly small number of users need a "Windows search". Turning it off, you will not only lose anything, but even increase the working time of your laptop.

And the service "Parental Control" (Parental Control), and does nothing at all. It was included in Windows 7 only to provide backward compatibility, which in this case is required by a vanishingly small number of programs.

For home computers only

Please note: all the operations described below can be performed only on home computers, as for some corporate clients these functions can be useful.

So, you are going to disable the extra services of Windows 7 on your home PC. Which of them can be considered "superfluous"?

Firstly, it is the IPSec Policy Agent. For the vast majority of even experienced users, it will never be useful at all, so that its shutdown will not affect anything. As for laptops, this service should be disabled at all (!), As this will significantly increase the battery life.

As for the "KtmRm" option, the Microsoft experts themselves say that if you do not need to provide increased security for MS DTC transactions, then it is recommended to turn it off, as this will release a significant amount of system resources. In general, all unused services that constantly hang in the background, in some cases, significantly reduce battery life.

But! Until recently, the deactivation of the "IP Helper" was actual. It is responsible for the ability to establish an IPv6 connection.

Of course, most users do not need this feature, and today one must remember that the pool of addresses of the old IPv4 protocol is gradually being exhausted, and that's why the providers are gradually starting to switch to the new technology. Therefore, in the disconnection of this service, there is no longer any urgent need. Perhaps, it even comes in handy.

The error went out ...

We once again remind that never and under no circumstances can you turn off those services, in the appointment of which you are not exactly sure. Problems with the operation of many programs on computers where the "assemblies" of the OS are installed are just related to the fact that Windows 7 services are not started.

For example, it is often impossible to install third-party programs (especially the "Office"). Contacting the same for technical support Microsoft is completely pointless, since its specialists with pirates will not work. What to do if you thoroughly dig in the services, after which the computer began to somehow work oddly?

The easiest way to recover

Make it simple. First you need to click on the "Start" button, find the "Run" line there. In it enter the command "MSConfig" and press "Enter". The "System Configuration" dialog box opens, in which we are interested in the "Services" tab. In its lower right corner there is an "Enable All" button. Click it, click "OK" with the left mouse button and agree to the reboot prompt.

After that, Windows 7, the restoration of which services we conducted, will start working normally.

Using system rollback

If it does not help, you'll have to roll back the system. To make it a little more difficult. We click on the button "Start", we search there for the item "Control panel". In the dialog that opens, click on the "Troubleshoot" option. A new window opens, in which you need to select the "Restore" item, which is located in the lower left corner.

Click on "Start System Restore", click on "Next". In the opened list, you must select a snapshot of the system state that was made before you made any manipulations with the services.

After performing the above steps, you will restore the default services to Windows 7, after which the computer will be fully restored.