How Do I Stop Unneeded Services from Running in Background

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Ho do I permanently stop unnecessary services that run in the background? Every time I stop a service through task manager, it restarts after I boot up. Is there a program that can do this that stops these background services permanently even after rebooting?
 

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I would be very careful with disabling system services. The problem is that you may end up disabling more than you bargained for. Many services do more than stated in the documentation. There is no complete documentation available anywhere.

The benefits of disabling services have been highly overrated while the risks are very real.
I speak from personal experience.
 

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Windows 8 is a lot smarter in handling Services. It will not start Services unless it needs them. How much RAM do you have installed on your computer?
 

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The benefits of disabling services have been highly overrated while the risks are very real.
I speak from personal experience.

If the user finds the right compromise without breaking anything, he can benefit from it. Disabling services increases an overall system responsiveness and lets not forget about an increased security.
Ho do I permanently stop unnecessary services that run in the background?
When checking, if the service is needed: Disable the service - Stop it - use the computer for a while.
When stopping the service, it will also stop the dependant services and notify you about them.
Those are the core services, that you should not disable, unless you know the consequences.
 

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Hi everyone. I made a mistake in creating my thread. What I meant was, how do I permanently disable unneeded background processes, not services. I actually meant background processes. Do let me know. Thanks.
 

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Specifically what processes and why do you believe they are unneeded?
Without knowing this the question cannot be answered.
 

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Sysinternals Autoruns (currently 13.4)

It's portable, and has to be rt-click 'run as administrator'. That means it's powerful and should be used with caution.
 

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I would be very careful with disabling system services. The problem is that you may end up disabling more than you bargained for. Many services do more than stated in the documentation. There is no complete documentation available anywhere.

The benefits of disabling services have been highly overrated while the risks are very real.
I speak from personal experience.

^THIS. Be very careful what you disable. Usually, I add a Delayed Start to services I know aren't going to be used as soon as the system starts. That way, there is less impact as the system starts up.
 

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I never bother with this stuff.
 

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how do I permanently disable unneeded background processes,
Sysinternals Autoruns (currently 13.4)

It's portable, and has to be rt-click 'run as administrator'. That means it's powerful and should be used with caution.
Autoruns is the best, but as said, it is too advanced, so be careful lurking around it.
For starters you might try CCleaner, it displays 3rd party startup items and tasks.

https://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner/using-ccleaner/managing-auto-starting-programs
 

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Ho do I permanently stop unnecessary services that run in the background? Every time I stop a service through task manager, it restarts after I boot up. Is there a program that can do this that stops these background services permanently even after rebooting?

If you're talking about the Windows Services, you cannot turn them OFF in Task Manager. There is a web site (Black Viper) where all the services are shown and which ones can be put in manual mode or completely Disabled. And, which ones to leave in Automatic mode.
You must RUN "Services.msc" to access the services, manually.

I went through that whole process myself, for XP and all subsequent OS's, and I wrote a batch file for each OS to disable UN-Needed services.
It's one of the things I do when setting up a new OS. So I can disable up to 24 services in XP, in just a few seconds, and many more in subsequent OS's. Doing it manually, in "Services.msc" can take a whole lot longer. I've been there and done that! :)

Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 are so similar, that I use the batch file for 8.1 when installing Win-10.
It works, to lessen the work load on the CPU and ram.

Windows Services first showed up in Windows XP and I spent several days, working to figure out which services I didn't need. I wound up disabling or setting to Manual, 24 different services. Later, I found all the info I needed, on the Black Viper web site. I also found info on how to write a batch file, to disable the services for me. That sure took the bite out of a very nasty little job.

Good Luck and Happy Computing!

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