Why You Should Disable Unneeded Services

Vasudev

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ESO and SMART use Black Viper's Safe, Tweaked and Barebone profiles for tweaking services.
 

Vasudev

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I would advise anyone not to stop print spooler service regardless of windows version, because disabling it causes some minor rendering issues while printing and messes up print to pdf too. I ruined my reports because of this minor problem which I caused.
 
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hjlbx

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A lot of users think disabling a bunch of services will improve system performance. Generally, it will not -- or not at least anything noticeable.

In fact, blindly disabling services will more often than not cause issues - including some slow-downs.
 

dJim

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Is not better use ESO ?
much better get good informed aout what does every service. then do manual.. those program who " optimize " most of cases make more problems that solutions.
 

_CyberGhosT_

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hjlbx is right the improvement is "minimal" from a performance standpoint,
but it does help a little, and if you do it right it will improve system security.
Messing with the Services though should not be taken lightly.
PeAcE
 

_CyberGhosT_

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I would advise anyone not to stop print spooler service regardless of windows version, because disabling it causes some minor rendering issues while printing and messes up print to pdf too. I ruined my reports because of this minor problem which I caused.

Disabling printspooler is recommended for systems "without" Printers,
not for systems with printers.
Reading the information for each service before configuring is a awesome idea that can
prevent errors like this one.
PeAcE
 
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