Just a query. How many services do you have running? At idle, I'm at 89 services in W10. I know most power users disable un-needed services.
125. The problem with this situation is there is is great dispute as to what qualifies as "unneeded". Disabling things probably won't give you any performance increase beyond a placebo effect and will possibly cause issues later. I'm sure others will swear differently but from Windows Vista forward I have personally seen no benefit from doing this.
I got 97 running on my system. I disable few system and some software services, that are IMO not needed.
How are you guys determining this? Task manager? I have 264 and I barely have anything installed on my computer.
In PowerShell as admin $acoundrunningservices = Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq "running"} $acoundrunningservices.Count
On Windows 11, I have 267 extended Services. I've disabled things like Device Installer Service b/c I don't want drivers on here when I've used DDU to reinstall NVIDIA. No problems with this for several years now. Have disabled anything having to do with Bluetooth and Printers also. No issues for years. If I click "View" tab and then: "Group by type" in Task Manager-- currently it's 37 Background, 87 Windows, and 2 Apps.
Ditto! Under Task Manager Services: 94 running. Win10 Pro 21H2. I have disabled 18 services on my own and though I think many more could be as well, I don't know enough to follow through; either no online data or where there is, way above my pay grade. So, little choice but to leave 'em alone. Can't let a thread about services go without mention of Mr. Sofer's most excellent ServiWin. https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/serviwin.html And... https://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/ Though Win10 not updated since April, 2018, it's still a good knowledge base as many things haven't changed in good ol' Windows Services.
since windows 8 i stopped counting. xp was fine for "tuning", windows 7 ****** *** me a little bit, windows 8 some more, but win10 blowed me while tweaking on services. in direct comparison win10 and 11 have a lot more services as win8, and some more tasks. this win10 system has 74 (which i dont care) with only few programs. i made my experience and i recommend not to disable any of those without knowledge and backup. The dependencies between services is really odd - disabling one screw another totally without the option to go back.
Though I have a few services running as a result of installed software, e.g. GlassWire, AppCheck, everything else runs as "svchost.exe -parameters" or out of system32, system32/DriverStore and a handful of other funky locations and filenames. How are you defining services within the context of "most" in this discussion? Just curious...
