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Which windows XP services can I disable without major consequence? [duplicate]

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What Windows services can I safely disable?

I want to disable some Windows XP services to make PC run faster.

I am not going to be using the PC for anything complex, but will need to leave networking enabled.

Which ones can I get rid of without fear of breaking something.

On a side note, which removed services will give me the biggest performance hike?

Thanks!

What Windows services can I safely disable?

I'm trying to improve the boot time and general performance of a Windows XP machine and figure the massive collection of services that Windows automatically starts have to have an impact. Are there any services that I can safely disable? If so what are they?

Obviously the services are there for a reason, so when listing a service, please provide reasoning & examples of when you'd not disable it.

Pin "View Local Services" to Windows 7 Taskbar?

I have to view the Windows services often and would like to pin the "View Local Services" to the Windows 7 taskbar somehow. It doesn't work when I try to drag it from the start menu, nor can I drag a shortcut to it.

Is there another way to do this?

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What is the purpose of the Office Source Engine service that Microsoft installs for newer versions of the Office suite?

How do I get the "net send" messenger service working on Windows 7?

When trying to use the method below to send message in Windows 7 nothing happens.

net send

It seems the Messenger Service is not working. Any suggestions as to why?

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I can't disable the Microsoft Antimalware service (MsMpSvc/MsMpEng.exe). I tried using services.msc, but the Startup Type drop-down is grayed out and I can't change it to Disabled nor stop the service. I also tried msconfig, but when I click Apply, the service gets enabled again. I even tried net stop msmpsvc and got system error 5 (access denied).

Any suggestions?

In Ubuntu, is there a command to show a list of ALL autostart services?

In Ubuntu,

1. Is there a command to show a list of all autostart services?
2. Is there a command to check if a service is autostarted at boot time or not?

I did Google and IRC. I can not find the answer. Maybe there no such commands exist in Ubuntu. In the beginning, I thought all autostarted services would be under /etc/rc2.d/, but I was wrong about that. Some ones are configured only under /etc/init/*.conf. Then I tried the chkconfig tool (installed it manually), it does not work all the time. For instance, it gives the wrong result for mongodb which is autostarted from /etc/init/mongodb.conf.

service --status-all and initctl list can only tell the services' current status instead of autostart status. update-rc.d is a command to change the autostart status instead of showing the status.

If there is no answer to my question, I am just wondering why it's so hard to check autostart services in Ubuntu.

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I want to change the path to the executable for a service from the command line.

How can I do that?

I want to run another .EXE from that service's path to executable.

Are there any torrent clients that run as a service?

I turn off all of my computers at night except for my server. I'd like to be able to have my torrent downloads run on my server, which won't be logged in, so I'm wondering if there are any clients that can run as a service.

I'm ideally looking for one that can be passed a path to a .torrent file and will begin downloading it (I'll write the program that will interact with it).

What can a service do on Windows?

What kind malware/spyware could someone put into a service that doesn't have it's own process on windows? I mean services that use svchost.exe for example, like this:

Could a service spy on my keyboard input? Take screenshots? Send/receive data over the internet? Infect other processes or files? Delete files? Kill processes?

Which Google Updater is the one that I should allow to run?

My machine has 5 Google updaters running:

• Service: Google Update Service (gupdate)

  Keeps your Google software up to date. If this service is disabled or stopped, your Google software will not be kept up to date, meaning security vulnerabilities that may arise cannot be fixed and features may not work. This service uninstalls itself when there is no Google software using it.

  C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe /svc
  

• Service: Google Update Service (gupdatem)

  Keeps your Google software up to date. If this service is disabled or stopped, your Google software will not be kept up to date, meaning security vulnerabilities that may arise cannot be fixed and features may not work. This service uninstalls itself when there is no Google software using it.

  C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe /medsvc
  

• Service: Google Updater Service

  C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Common\Google Updater\GoogleUpdaterService.exe
  

• Scheduled Task: GoogleUpdateTaskMachineCore

  Keeps your Google software up to date. If this task is disabled or stopped, your Google software will not be kept up to date, meaning security vulnerabilities that may arise cannot be fixed and features may not work. This task uninstalls itself when there is no Google software using it.

  • Runs at logon of any user

  • Runs daily at 10:08 AM

      C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe /C
    

• Scheduled Task: GoogleUpdateTaskMachineUA

  Keeps your Google software up to date. If this task is disabled or stopped, your Google software will not be kept up to date, meaning security vulnerabilities that may arise cannot be fixed and features may not work. This task uninstalls itself when there is no Google software using it.

  • Runs every hour

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe /ua /installsource scheduler
    

Now obviously Google doesn't need all these items running at the same time; some are going to be legacy duplicates.

Which one is the current, true, preferred, Google updater?

Would the real Google updater please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up.

My setup:

• Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
• Chrome
• one interactive user account

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Is this possible?

If it's helpful I have access to Powershell but don't know how to retrieve this type of information from it.

In Windows 7, is there a way to know how much memory a service is using?

In windows 7, is there a way (by using common interface or a custom utility) to know how much memory a specific windows service is using ?

It seems most services are hosted by svchost.exe processes ( some svchosts.exe processes seems to host tons of services). While it is possible to know which services are hosted by a specific process, I found no way to get information about how much memory a service take.

How do I find out what service is using a certain port?

Port 22 specifically. I installed freeSSHd on a Windows Server 2008 box that only runs IIS. When I try to start the SSH Service, it tells me that the port is already being used. How can I find out what service is using this port?