In this tutorial
we’ll learn about the services
which are not essential and can be safely set to MANUAL
to speed up your system:
1. Right-click on Computer icon on desktop and select Manage, it’ll open a new window. Now go to Services & Applications -> Services. You can also open the same
from Administrative Tools -> Computer Management. Or you can directly open
“Services” list by providing services.msc command in RUN or Startmenu search box.
2. Now you can set the unnecessary services to
DISABLED or MANUAL. Just
double-click on any service
and select the desired option
in Startup type list box.
NOTE: Always set the service to MANUAL, never
disable it, so that
whenever Windows needs
to start a service it can
easily start and use it. If
you set any service to DISABLED, Windows will
not be able to start it and
will give some error
messages.
Here is a list of services that
can be safely set to MANUAL:
- Application Experience
- Computer Browser (If your computer is not connected to
any network) - Desktop Window Manager
- Session Manager (If you don’t use Aero theme)
- Diagnostic Policy Service
- Distributed Link Tracking Client
- IP Helper
- Offline Files
- Portable Device Enumerator Service
- Print Spooler (If you don’t have Printer)
- Protected Storage
- Remote Registry (Always disable it for Security
purposes) - Secondary Logon
- Security Center
- Server (If your computer is not connected to any
network) - Tablet PC Input Service
- TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
- Themes ( If you use Windows Classic theme)
- Windows Error Reporting
Service - Windows Media Center
Service Launcher - Windows Search (If you don’t use Windows Search
feature frequently) - Windows Time (If you don’t want to update system tray
clock time using Internet)
NOTE: You can see the details of each service to determine
whether you should disable it
or not.