Disable or Turn off or shut down Unnecessary Services and Programs running in windows XP or windows 7.
XP released by Microsoft in 2001 for
both office and home users was a great leap in terms of performance
,graphics ,software and hardware support and many more. Despite there
are many unnecessary services and programs running in the background
that may degrade your CPU performance and utilize system resources for
no purpose. This calls for urgent action specially if you have too low
RAM or Processor speed. Here’s how you can do it.
1. Go to start->run and type services.msc
2. You will see a page open like this
This page shows which all services exist, there status and what they do.
3. Now here is the list of top 3 services you do not require if you are a normal home user and should be closed
a. Automatic
Updates-This services automatically downloads windows updates (if you
have a genuine copy of XP) from official Microsoft website. This uses
unneeded band width as well as Mb usage specially if u do not have an
unlimited plan.
b. Background Intelligent Transfer –This downloads updates automatically in background.
c. Security Center-This
tells whether you have firewall enabled, antivirus installed, automatic
updates turned on or not. If You know about your PC you don’t require
this service.
4. To close these services right click on them and click properties a dialogue box will open.
In status type select “Disabled” to stop
the service permanently. You can run it again by choosing “Manual” or
“Automatic” and clicking “start” in “service type”.
Now you must have an idea on using services.msc to your advantage.
