📎 AI Summary:
The user, Jakob, inquires if it's possible to control the startup of SharePoint 2010 services on his Windows 7 laptop to save resources when not in use, such as starting services manually or upon login. A respondent confirms that this is feasible by installing SharePoint for a specific user rather than defaulting to all users, which would allow more control over service startup. The overall discussion suggests that managing service startup settings can optimize resource usage when running SharePoint on a local machine.

Jakob Rohde

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Hi

I have installed SharePoint 2010 on my Windows 7 laptop, and it works fine. But all the services that are installed will always start and use a lot of resources, even when I don't use the application.

It is possible to only start all the involved services (like SQL Server, IIS etc.) when I tell it to or to only have them start when I log on with a special user account?

Thanks
Jakob
 

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It is possible to only start all the involved services (like SQL Server, IIS etc.) when I tell it to or to only have them start when I log on with a special user account?
Yes, provided you install it only for a specific user instead of the (usually default) all users.

patcooke

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It is possible to only start all the involved services (like SQL Server, IIS etc.) when I tell it to or to only have them start when I log on with a special user account?
Yes, provided you install it only for a specific user instead of the (usually default) all users.
 

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