disabling services

Windows ships with dozens of features and background services designed to improve convenience — but those conveniences are also additional points of entry for attackers. A recent how‑to-style guide compiled a short list of commonly unnecessary capabilities that many users can safely disable to...

Windows 11 is renowned for its power, versatility, and customization options, but many users may not realize just how many background processes are constantly running, silently impacting system resources—especially battery life. Among these, the Windows Search Indexer stands out as a prime...

Windows 11’s layered architecture is a marvel of modern OS design, but beneath its glossy surface lies a dense world of background services—many running quietly and persistently, often unnoticed by everyday users. These services underpin features ranging from network connectivity and device...

5 Windows Services I Disabled to Make My PC Run Smoother: A Geek’s Guide to Reckless System Tweaking No one loves a sluggish computer—except perhaps hardware sales reps. For the rest of us, a slow PC is less “retro cool” and more “why is my fancy device crawling like it’s running Windows Vista...

Unlocking Windows Performance: The Art of Disabling Unnecessary Services Windows is a complex beast, brimming with countless background services that often run automatically without much consideration for their necessity on a typical user's system. Many of these services were designed to support...

Hi, There was a little updating done a few days ago, a couple of hundred megs, however since then the computer has cut out three times. Does these mean anything? I don't use bluez so will disable that but not sure what these logs are saying? Windows 10 crashed the other day so might not be just...

I have Windows 10 Home because they didn't feel like my Ultimate Vista license which got me to 8 was good enough one more time lol. Anywho, I run a dual boot system and have some server and camera stuff that run on this machine so windows auto update regularly explodes my system and causes a...

Hello, yesterday when i was cleaning my pc from files i misscilck and turned off all services. Today, i can't do anything that uses services, and i can't turn them on. I tried to restore system but it uses service so i can't do IT. Can someone help me? I have admin on my pc. I send some pic but...

Hi folks there's a service called Software protection it eats my CPU it take about 30% of my CPU when it works , and it works when I startup any Office program it may also when I startup my Internet Browser The only solution to solve my problem is to take it .exe from...

I had this really strange issue with my computer this morning, the audio and network weren't working. In addition to that, I couldn't even see the network status on the taskbar. I went to services and almost all of them were disabled. I looked for ones that said network and ones that said audio...

I have Windows 8.1 Pro installed upgraded recently from Windows 7. Unfortunately I have a problem with the Store app constantly running at startup and it does not go away unless I manually Terminate it from the Task Manager. It seems to be ingrained with my Microsoft Account. Because even...

I disabled the "Tablet PC Input Service" in Services management console for a Desktop 64bit Win 7. I guess this is the underlying service for WISPTIS.EXE Now when I start some other tools like "Toad for MySQL" then this program is started automatically anyway. It is running as...

hi, windows search has 2 tasks that eats 40% of my cpu. can i put this service in non automatic mode, or completely disable it without any bad effect? Or should i wait? i have win 10 64bit. maybe some blocking with other software? thanks

Discusses an issue in which you receive an "Error 1058: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it." error message and a service does not start. Provides a resolution. More...

I have googled this as it is not on blackvipers list of services which are present natively in windows 7, what is it, is it a virus, or is it something I can safely disable? It is "VSN service"