What unnecessary Windows Services can I disable in order to make the OS safer ?

Hi, theres many Windows Services, like Telnet, which I dont use and come enabled by default. Can anyone tell me any site that explains what services I can disable and how to do it ?

 

## Anything you decide to do IS AT YOUR OWN RISK




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FOR: NT/W2K/XP



Warning: disabling any service can cause installed applications to fail, so recommended practice is to disable unnecessary services one at a time, testing all installed apps to ensure they still function correctly.

 

the cynical might say dispense with the whole operating system and buy a Mac - faster speeds, smoother interface and no spyware problems to boot (or not to boot that is the question)

 

Majorgeeks.com has Black Viper's write-up on XP services...

http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12

 

Faster speeds?!?~ Now thats funny! I have yet to see a ANY Mac keep up with a well built XP 64 or P4 system. Also, as indicated in a previous post, Macs have plenty of Spyware problems.


Trekk

 

Monday, August 22, 2005 @ 6:07 PM PST

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Consider disabling following services unless required:
Indexing Service
Messenger
NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing
Network DDE
Network DDE DSDM
Remote Registry
Routing and Remote Access
Secondary Logon
SSDP Discovery Service
Telnet
Terminal Services
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
WebClient
Wireless Zero Configuration

-- Tom

 

Here's a great site with lots of really useful info and tests. His latest post just happens to be about your questions.

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Hardening Windows Host part 2 : WINDOWS SERVICES CONFIGURATION

Windows comes with unnecessary services which require to be configured properly to gain memory resources and to increase the security level.
The configuration depends on each environment, that's why we can't define recommended rules for any user: it must be done case-by-case.

There is many pages from Microsoft to Windows XP specialized web sites which provide exhaustive informations.
Here i just give some links and it could be suited to establish some comparisons.

http://kareldjag.over-blog.com/


Stevieo

 

Thanks everybody for the support