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Could the program name(s) associated with these services be included? This would make disabling them much easier. Thank you.
start -> services (write in search box) -> click on it -> you will get all your services list which you can edit
As already stated open Admin Tools->Services. There is the list of services by name. And they match the names given in the article. How much easier is that?
To disable them just right click the corresponding name and click properties, and change the startup type to Disabled...click OK to apply. Restart once gone through the list to make effective incase any thing is currently operational.
You should also know what you're doing...for example I know I need HOMEGROUP therefore I haven't disabled them...
How much easier could it be?
To disable them just right click the corresponding name and click properties, and change the startup type to Disabled...click OK to apply. Restart once gone through the list to make effective incase any thing is currently operational.
You should also know what you're doing...for example I know I need HOMEGROUP therefore I haven't disabled them...
How much easier could it be?
That information will vary from one environment to the next. It's up to you as the IT pro to use discretion in figuring this out.
For desktop PC's in a workplace it's unlikely you'll need this service as its configuration of GSM/CDMA cards, laptops may use this but very unlikely to have a GSM card in a PC.
In a "closed" network environment with thousands of desktops, WWAN AutoConfig service usually can be disabled for desktops. Not likely that mobile broadband service is needed on small form factor desktops for example. Not to mention that, according to Microsoft: "The WWAN service may crash after you resume a Windows 7-based computer from S3 sleep" unless the Hotfix is applied (see Article ID: 2519740).
I have yet to see an error report submitted and received a solution. You'll turn a hue of MS blue first.
I went down the list, disabled a few of the most obvious ones, but all of them were set to Manual, and none of them were running. Does disabling a service free up more resources than just having a stopped service?
If you stop a service, it will most likely start again when you reboot, disabling it will never start again until you enable it
Services set to Manual do not run until something triggers them. They use no resources until that happens, so disabling them will not return any resources. Disabling them will prevent them from running even if the system tries to send them a trigger.
Manual doesn't mean user-initiated, however. There are many services which the operating system can start if only set to Manual.
I do all these on vista and win7 machines as soon as possible. One additional thing I do is block multicast (inbound and outbound) with the firewall. I have seen a win7 machine associate itself with an outside network recently, I was floored to find the IP was world routable behind our firewall! (it was 169.254.x.x address, assigned to IANA!!!)
Weirder still, the machine could still access everything, including the web interface on the firewall, which was on a private (192.168...) network.
I have yet to find the underlying service/process that's initiating all the multicast traffic, but disabling it at the firewall stops it. The media center stuff seems responsible for part of it, but shutting those down does not stop multicast altogether.
IANA... I always assumed windows was trying to thwart firewall/routers by broadcasting a request for association with the outside, which unless specifically blocked would be let out by the firewall, and of course the return traffic would be allowed as it's associated.
Of course some windows office services use multicast, but I doubt many people need to allow this stuff through the perimeter.
Weirder still, the machine could still access everything, including the web interface on the firewall, which was on a private (192.168...) network.
I have yet to find the underlying service/process that's initiating all the multicast traffic, but disabling it at the firewall stops it. The media center stuff seems responsible for part of it, but shutting those down does not stop multicast altogether.
IANA... I always assumed windows was trying to thwart firewall/routers by broadcasting a request for association with the outside, which unless specifically blocked would be let out by the firewall, and of course the return traffic would be allowed as it's associated.
Of course some windows office services use multicast, but I doubt many people need to allow this stuff through the perimeter.
Maybe I am misreading your comment, but 169.254.x.x is *not* multicast space. It is the IANA-reserved link-local space, described in RFC3927 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3927. It's what Windows grabs when it can't find a DHCP server, and most importantly, "A router MUST NOT forward a packet with an IPv4 Link-Local source or destination address..."
So don't worry too much, it's unlikely that traffic is going anywhere--even if your firewall would somehow happen to forward that traffic, your ISP's upstream router will certainly drop it.
So don't worry too much, it's unlikely that traffic is going anywhere--even if your firewall would somehow happen to forward that traffic, your ISP's upstream router will certainly drop it.
If you get a 169.254 address it's either a problem with the DHCP server or a network layer issue [NIC, cabling, ...].
You have to remember that only the 224 - 230 ip range does Multicast anyway, the 169 address usually always happens if you are having problems locally on the pc resolving IP or obtaining an address from the DHCP server.
I am aware of the multicast range. If you check the wire with any default windows box on the line you'll see it, eg right now I'm looking at a default win7 pro box blathering on 240.0.0.252. It's related top the "multimedia" services.
What I am concerned about is any of this being allowed outbound through a firewall. If something on the outside were to establish a connection the firewall is potentially compromised.
The 169.x address usually results in no connectivity, as stated with a failed DHCP request windows will assign this range. In all my years I have never seen this address in use result in any connectivity. But this machine was on line, and could access local resources.
A release/renew resulted in the correct, assigned IP on the interface,a 192.168.x.x number. It's remained in the correct space since, 3 days now.
That was a separate issue from my comment about disabling multicast, which is basically wasted bandwidth at best and potentially an avenue for compromise at worst.
Thanks folks, appreciate the input. I suppose if I'm going to post I should take the time to do it right.
What I am concerned about is any of this being allowed outbound through a firewall. If something on the outside were to establish a connection the firewall is potentially compromised.
The 169.x address usually results in no connectivity, as stated with a failed DHCP request windows will assign this range. In all my years I have never seen this address in use result in any connectivity. But this machine was on line, and could access local resources.
A release/renew resulted in the correct, assigned IP on the interface,a 192.168.x.x number. It's remained in the correct space since, 3 days now.
That was a separate issue from my comment about disabling multicast, which is basically wasted bandwidth at best and potentially an avenue for compromise at worst.
Thanks folks, appreciate the input. I suppose if I'm going to post I should take the time to do it right.
I found your post most interesting. Thanks! I'll be checking for this sort of thing on my network now!
... are NOT the network layer. You need to re-learn the OSI model. That's physical layer.
Off topic, but I once came across an ISP in Alberta that was doing Wireless WAN and handing out 169.254.X.X IP's to it's subscribers! So the DNS and Gateway addresses were also 169.254.X.X!! And it all worked. But you can imagine how the initial troubleshooting for IT pros that come across this goes!
"Copies user certificates and root certificates from smart cards into the current user's certificate store, detects when a smart card is inserted into a smart card reader, and, if needed, installs the smart card Plug and Play minidriver."
If we turn off smart cards as per the article, do we need "certificate propogation" turned on?
If we turn off smart cards as per the article, do we need "certificate propogation" turned on?
Another of CNET's crew of writers who are so smart about what they're writing but are clueless they may have an audience that doesn't. For those of us out here not as smart, how about a clue to the next level, where one finds the magic sword that turns off those dragons.
Having finally caved to the Win 7 OS, I'm still in basic training. I'm sick of learning curves, too time consuming, so, hey smarty pants, how about helping out your students by telling us where the answers can be found. Make it an open book test.
Based on your article content measured in outcome based knowledge, (meaning what you're saying and that I'm understanding is the process to accomplish what it is you're trying to say for me to do) far as I'm concerned your teaching skills rate about minimum wage
Simply stated: teacher, how do I disable these processes.
Having finally caved to the Win 7 OS, I'm still in basic training. I'm sick of learning curves, too time consuming, so, hey smarty pants, how about helping out your students by telling us where the answers can be found. Make it an open book test.
Based on your article content measured in outcome based knowledge, (meaning what you're saying and that I'm understanding is the process to accomplish what it is you're trying to say for me to do) far as I'm concerned your teaching skills rate about minimum wage
Simply stated: teacher, how do I disable these processes.
Disabling (and restarting) services is a common IT task.
If you need to know how to do this, you should google it.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=disable+services+in+windows+7
If you need to know how to do this, you should google it.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=disable+services+in+windows+7
I press 2 keys and a new Firefox window opens to Google with cursor
placed in the search box.
I then type win 7 disable service
and press enter
placed in the search box.
I then type win 7 disable service
and press enter
Skyenter:
You should probably have a clue before you try doing something as technically challenging as disabling a service.
You actually do it the same way that it has been done since at least WinXP... Use the Services (or Local Services) applet. It can be found in Control Panel or by using the Search Feature under the Start Button.
If the article is too technically challenging for you, consider this link: www.disney.com...
You should probably have a clue before you try doing something as technically challenging as disabling a service.
You actually do it the same way that it has been done since at least WinXP... Use the Services (or Local Services) applet. It can be found in Control Panel or by using the Search Feature under the Start Button.
If the article is too technically challenging for you, consider this link: www.disney.com...
First you spelled the name wrong, so you fail reading. Second, novel of you passing on the link to your home page. While not as adept at reading machine intelligence as you, one thing I do know, how to read a smart *ss with limited intelligence.
My first laptop was an Osborne, dual floppy, 5" green screen, probably built before you were born. I'm still running the first system I built in 2002 and loaded Win 98 on it back then.
Perhaps you didn't read my comment right. It's Win 7 that I'm now learning. So if you want to chastize me for my ignorance on that subject then go ahead, but don't confuse ignorance for stupid. Unless of course you're looking in a mirror. skye
My first laptop was an Osborne, dual floppy, 5" green screen, probably built before you were born. I'm still running the first system I built in 2002 and loaded Win 98 on it back then.
Perhaps you didn't read my comment right. It's Win 7 that I'm now learning. So if you want to chastize me for my ignorance on that subject then go ahead, but don't confuse ignorance for stupid. Unless of course you're looking in a mirror. skye
snark the first snark.
Smurfs aside, if you don't know what you're doing, either stop trying or try harder.
Don't try to hijack a blog by demanding that its author dumb it down to your level, it would mean cheesing off his target audience.
Smurfs aside, if you don't know what you're doing, either stop trying or try harder.
Don't try to hijack a blog by demanding that its author dumb it down to your level, it would mean cheesing off his target audience.
You're just having migration issues.... but you still need to find things in the new OS by exploring for yourself, or using google. And jquinnjr's main point is still valid. The services snap-in hasn't changed since Win NT3.5 (around the time you were playing with Win98). Your excuse doesn't hold water.
...then select "Start Task Manager".
In Task Manager select the "Services" tab.
Hit the "Services..." button.
In the window that appears double-click any service to get a dialog which allows you to change its settings.
Don't forget, turning off some services may stop Windows from working.
Good luck.
In Task Manager select the "Services" tab.
Hit the "Services..." button.
In the window that appears double-click any service to get a dialog which allows you to change its settings.
Don't forget, turning off some services may stop Windows from working.
Good luck.
"Publishes this computer and resources attached to this computer so they can be discovered over the network. If this service is stopped, network resources will no longer be published and they will not be discovered by other computers on the network."
None of our workstations hold resources for use by any other. Will anything break if this is turned off?
None of our workstations hold resources for use by any other. Will anything break if this is turned off?
... for these questions is Black Viper. The name is corny, but trust me... this guy is good. Google 'black viper windows services'. The first hit is it.
I remember the first time I came across BV, I had searched for "disable windows services" and it was on the first page of results, though not the first. I have a habit of going down results, middle clicking links to open in new tabs. Always good to broaden your horizons I say.
Black viper is a gold mine.
Black viper is a gold mine.
We don't use this so I disable it
The Windows biometric service gives client applications the ability to capture, compare, manipulate, and store biometric data without gaining direct access to any biometric hardware or samples. The service is hosted in a privileged SVCHOST process.
I also disable WIA (Windows Image Acquisition) if the user is not going to be scanning or using a camera.
The Windows biometric service gives client applications the ability to capture, compare, manipulate, and store biometric data without gaining direct access to any biometric hardware or samples. The service is hosted in a privileged SVCHOST process.
I also disable WIA (Windows Image Acquisition) if the user is not going to be scanning or using a camera.
This list would be much more helpful if the associated executable(s) would have been listed along with the narrative. Could this article be updated and republished? Thank you.
... you would be well advised to leave your windows services alone.
Everything running is memory, disk access, and processor time something else could be using - however big or small. It's also one more process that can be hooked into by malware. Less is better not only for performance, but for security.
The way windows applications work is, they sit in a constant loop, checking for messages from the operating system, when it receives a message, it responds accordingly.
That "not responding" windows frequently does, means the application isn't acknowledging messages.
It is however possible for programs to "sleep" and completely give up CPU for a specified time. The kernel essentially stops giving the process CPU time for the amount of time the app requested to "sleep". This can also result in an application showing as "not responding" because it is unable to respond to messages (cause it's sleeping).
In short, every program you have running, is sitting in an endless loop listening for messages and burning CPU time.
That "not responding" windows frequently does, means the application isn't acknowledging messages.
It is however possible for programs to "sleep" and completely give up CPU for a specified time. The kernel essentially stops giving the process CPU time for the amount of time the app requested to "sleep". This can also result in an application showing as "not responding" because it is unable to respond to messages (cause it's sleeping).
In short, every program you have running, is sitting in an endless loop listening for messages and burning CPU time.
It's usually useless, unless you actually have biometric auth capabilities
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