Saturday, 16 January 2016

A minimum working window service list for a typical home user who upgraded his/her "old" computer to windows 10 recently


Microsoft is pushing window users to upgrade to windows 10 (for free). But if you have some old computers which does not have much memory you may end up with very serious performance issues once upgraded. My laptop had 4 G memory. My computer runs terribly slow once I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10.

I spent lot of time configuring my laptop to optimize the performance and it was not responsive at all. I was even thinking about downgrade back to windows 7. But I finally get the issue fixed by only starting needed windows services. I used msconfig to disable all services (some services will NOT be disabled) and then add only services to make sure I can use internet, printer and audio.

Here is the list of services running at my laptop. (the list is obtained by running "net start" command).
Hope this can save time for people with similar situations.



  1. Application Information
  2.    Background Intelligent Transfer Service
  3.    Background Tasks Infrastructure Service
  4.    COM+ Event System
  5.    CoreMessaging
  6.    Cryptographic Services
  7.    DCOM Server Process Launcher
  8.    DHCP Client
  9.    Diagnostics Tracking Service
  10.    DNS Client
  11.    Group Policy Client
  12.    Local Session Manager
  13.    Network Connected Devices Auto-Setup
  14.    Network Connection Broker
  15.    Network List Service
  16.    Network Location Awareness
  17.    Network Store Interface Service
  18.    Plug and Play
  19.    Power
  20.    Print Spooler
  21.    Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
  22.    Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator
  23.    RPC Endpoint Mapper
  24.    State Repository Service
  25.    System Events Broker
  26.    Task Scheduler
  27.    TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
  28.    Tile Data model server
  29.    Time Broker
  30.    User Manager
  31.    User Profile Service
  32.    Windows Audio
  33.    Windows Audio Endpoint Builder
  34.    Windows Connection Manager
  35.    Windows Defender Service
  36.    Windows Error Reporting Service
  37.    Windows Event Collector
  38.    Windows Event Log
  39.    Windows Update
  40.    WLAN AutoConfig
  41.    Workstation
  42.    WWAN AutoConfig



A good place to check all windows 10 services:
http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/black-vipers-windows-10-service-configurations/

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