Want to Disable Unwanted Services on Windows? System Configuration is a utility provided by Microsoft Windows which gives us flexibility to tweak many options related to Booting, Startup and other Tools. Lets see how to open System Configuration on Windows. Anyone can follow and use this guide without problems. You don't have to be a computer expert or computer expert to follow this guide.
Let's talk about the steps now!
In fact, in the Windows operating system, many services (including Windows default services and third-party software services or driver services) run in the background and consume large amounts of system resources. Some of these services are very important and require Windows to work correctly, but others don't, and they can be disabled or configured for manual startup to save CPU and RAM resources. You also can disable windows update and big unwanted service can be chopped off.
This tutorial will help you find services that are not needed in Windows 10 and you can configure it to start manually, so that services do not start on Windows and do not use valuable system resources.
In order to speed your computer and disable unwanted services on windows system, first, you must open a service manager to configure Windows 10 services. You can open Service Manager in various ways, as shown below:
Let's talk about the steps now!
In fact, in the Windows operating system, many services (including Windows default services and third-party software services or driver services) run in the background and consume large amounts of system resources. Some of these services are very important and require Windows to work correctly, but others don't, and they can be disabled or configured for manual startup to save CPU and RAM resources. You also can disable windows update and big unwanted service can be chopped off.
This tutorial will help you find services that are not needed in Windows 10 and you can configure it to start manually, so that services do not start on Windows and do not use valuable system resources.
Disable Unwanted Services On Windows System
In order to speed your computer and disable unwanted services on windows system, first, you must open a service manager to configure Windows 10 services. You can open Service Manager in various ways, as shown below:
- Press WIN + X simultaneously to display the quick access menu, then select the "Computer management" option. This will open a new window. Now click "Services and applications -> Services" in the left panel.
- You can do the same thing by clicking "Computer -> Manage" in the "PC" ribbon toolbar.
- You can also right-click the "This PC" icon on the desktop and choose the "Manage" option.
- Or press WIN + R simultaneously to open the RUN dialog box, type services.msc and press Enter. This will immediately open a service manager.
Step 1: Press Win + R
Step 2: Enter msconfig in RUN dialog
System Configuration dialog should appear.
Step 3: Click on Services Tab
Step 4: Disable these Services
To Disable Unwanted Services On Windows, you should see the list of services which fits the best to get rid of. Choose from the below services and and select disable. Below services are not so important for usual use, so disabling these services would help to improve the system startup and Windows Booting time.
But before going further, you must disable Cortana which is a voice based search service running in Windows. This process consumes a lot of memeory.
- Windows Media Center receiver
- Windows Media Center Scheduler service
- Microsoft Office Groove Audit Service
- Microsoft Office Diagnostic Service
- Smart Card Removal Policy
- Smart Card
- Diagnostic Policy Service
- Print Spooler
- Diagnostic Tracking Service
- Connected User Experiences and Telemetry
- Distributed Link Tracking Client
- Windows Search
- dmwappushsvc
- Secondary Logon
- Security Center
- TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper (If you are not in a workgroup network)
- Windows Error Reporting Service
- Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)
- IP Helper (If you don't use IPv6 connection)
- Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service
- Windows Defender Service
- Program Compatibility Assistant Service
- Downloaded Maps Manager
