Thread: List of Unnecessary Services You Should Disable to Increase Performance of Computer

Windows automatically starts up some services in the background. Most of these services are unused by common PC users. This tends to slow down the booting time and it can also be heavy on important resources like CPU and RAM. Here are some listed unnecessary services which you can safely disable (if not used) which can speed up the performance of your computer to a certain extent. Try them at your own risk. We would suggest that you check the description of each service on the Internet before you disable them and also try disabling them one at a time.
In order to disable these services..

1. Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services
2. Choose the required service you want to disable
3. Double Click on the service
4. Under startup type, Select disable.

In this way you can stop the starting of this unused services which will speed up your computer. The list of unnecessary services is as follows..

• Alerter,
• Application Management,
• Background Intelligent Transfer Service,
• Clipbook,
• Error Reporting Service,
• Fast User Switching,
• IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service,
• Indexing Service,
• IP SEC,
• Messenger,
• Net Logon,
• Network DDE,
• NT LM Security Support Provider,
• Performance Logs and Alerts,
• Portable Media Serial Number,
• QOS RSVP,
• Remote Desktop Help Session Manager,
• Remote Registry,
• Routing & Remote Access,
• Secondary Login,
• Smart Card,
• Smart Card Helper,
• SSDP Discovery Service,
• TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper,
• Telnet,
• Uninterruptible Power Supply Service,
• Universal Plug and Play Device Host,
• Upload Manager,
• Volume Shadow Copy Service,
• Web Client,
• Wireless Zero Configuration,
• WMI Performance Adapter.

thank you Rare Computer Tips for this tut you rock!!!

If I missed out any unnecessary service, do let me know through your comments.

These are really cool tricks. I was not aware of those. Keep it up.

Thanks for the hints... I could def use a little more performance ;)

cool!!!! Thanks!!!!!!!! :)

Never knew that there were so many services that could be disabled and still have windows function. thansk for the info.

Want to try some of these out but i dont know if it will mess with my sli patch i have installed

Thanks for the super helpful post! This has already helped out my little netbook!

Thanks, does anyone know is there any easy script that could disable those services automatically? I mean it could be handy if the 'block list' was within a small file so that alterations could be done quickly, maybe add or remove some services.
Well anyway this is easy and quick enough as the list isn't ridiculously long.

I disable HomeGroup because it is a beginners networking setup. Turns out it does use a lot of resources.