Solved Which services do you recommend to disable? here is my list

@XxXxX And my comment was a response to your comment about backups, immediately preceding, not your post from five hours ago.

pseymour said:

@XxXxX And my comment was a response to your comment about backups, immediately preceding, not your post from five hours ago.

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"Yes, you can backup the registry yourself, or you can take a full system image yourself, or you can write down the changes you make on paper. All of those things, while true, entirely miss the point that was being made."

may i enquire about the the bold part highlighted, please.
as i most certainly seem to have missed the point.
best of luck, Steve ..

My laptop only has 4GB of RAM and functions very well with no need to disable services. Windows is doing a thousand things a second and works best if you stop second-guessing it. Would you buy a new car and start ripping out it's electronics?

Registry backups are almost useless today when image backups are so fast and will fix almost any self-inflicted tweaking.

Levitate11 said:

Sys Internal's Autorun utility

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hmmm such a good toolkit
thank you

The problem is an image backup reverts many changes, and not just what you wanted to fix. It’s like choosing a jackhammer when a screwdriver would suffice. Users should be backing up to preserve user data, but it’s not intended to be a rollback for making a tweak that should have a simple undo logged.

Those of us with IT backgrounds tend to deal with the law of unintended consequences. A guiding principle is to always make the smallest change needed to get something done, and not to create more work for yourself or someone else.

These debates will never end, but reflect why there’s opposing camps.

Sheikh said:

hmmm such a good toolkit
thank you

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Their Process Explorer is also a must have.

garlin said:

The problem is an image backup reverts many changes, and not just what you wanted to fix. It’s like choosing a jackhammer when a screwdriver would suffice. Users should be backing up to preserve user data, but it’s not intended to be a rollback for making a tweak that should have a simple undo logged.

Those of us with IT backgrounds tend to deal with the law of unintended consequences. A guiding principle is to always make the smallest change needed to get something done, and not to create more work for yourself or someone else.

These debates will never end, but reflect why there’s opposing camps.

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If you do daily backups and something then goes wrong, surely restoring from that image is far more effective than trying to diagnose the problem.

I do not deactivate or remove services. That way my computer doesn't blow up.

To each their own. I definitely deactivate services and scheduled tasks that I find unnecessary for me.

The last two words are important. It's my computer and it should run the way it suits me. The default Windows installation is designed to work in a very large number of scenarios, but it's not optimized for me specifically. For that reason, it includes programs and services, that are not useful to me, although they may be essential to someone else. It is unreasonable to expect Microsoft (or any other vendor) to satisfy every single one of us. I doubt that was ever their purpose (in fact, I am certain it was not, their primary purpose is to make money for their shareholders). If someone is happy with the out-of-the-box experience, great. If I want to trim down the number of programs running on my machine, it's my right to do so. In fact, I found this thread by searching the internet about the MareBackup scheduled task: it appears unnecessary to me, but before disabling it, I still search to find out its purpose and whether disabling it will actually break something. The latter is unfortunately important - Microsoft does not provide adequate documentation. There is no way of simply opening a manual and reading what does the task, e.g. MareBackup do.

So thanks to @Sheikh for starting the thread and providing his list.

Now, to answer his original question, I have the following services as disabled (some of them were disabled to begin with):

Catnip said:

I do not deactivate or remove services. That way my computer doesn't blow up.

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You gotta love this feline! My sentiments exactly. I buy a computer with enough power and memory that I don't need to cripple anything.

Many Services have underlying dependencies..., you start messin with them aggressively and some things are bound to go to sh*t.

Yeah, some services have interactions. If in doubt, leave it. But some are unnecessary.

I'm not as aggressive as I was back in the days when we were overclocking 386 chips to eek out a little more performance. But I still trim the fat. I try not to trim too much at one time, so if something goes south, you can reverse it and fix the issue.

after the last Windows preview update which placed 10 extra services in the service menu and 2 extra in the service registry
9x hyper-v and 1x activeX in the service menu .. 1x hyper-v and 1x xboxhib in the service registry which don't show in the service menu.

i know have 70 services disabled via the service menu and 5 services that are related but only in the service registry
making a total now of 75 services disabled.

these services are disabled on 2 home AiO desktops which are both running just fine.
best of luck, Steve ..

I really don't see the point for the most part. I may disable services that actually do things I don't want done, but other than that, I leave them alone.

What's really the point, my processor idles at 2-3%, and I have tons of memory.