Updated - Saving System Resources Manually - Parts 1 and 2

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Disabling unnecessary services from running at system start-up - Part 2

This list is intended as a supplement, to the previous thread that I posted on this topic.

This is an additional list of the Services, which do not always have to start automatically at system start-up.

Again, written with Windows XP in mind, but may also work with Windows Vista and Windows 7.

This time however, instead of Disabling the Service, the Service can be reset to Manual,
as most of the entries in the list below are. but some of these Services, may already be set to Manual start, by default.

It won't be the same on every PC and depending on what software you have installed on your own PC and your system configuration,
you will have to establish which of these Services you can either safely Disable or reset to Manual
start, after checking what their Dependencies may be.

Once again, click on Start and select Run, then type Services.msc and click on the OK button.
Double click on the Service to display the Properties of the Service, under the General tab.
Then click on the Dependencies tab to see what Dependencies if any, are displayed in the lower pane.
Once you have established that, click once again on the General tab, to either Stop, Start, Pause or Resume
the Service you want to modify.

Some Services, may have no Depedencies at all, showing in either the upper or lower display panes,
and with some of them, both the Start and Stop buttons are greyed out. and with these type of Services,
I think it could be a good idea to leave them as they are.

If you are in any doubt, in the first instance, you can always Stop the Service first and leave it for a little while,
to see if there are any adverse effects, before eventually resetting it to Disabled or Manual start.

I would once again suggest that before you make any changes to your system configuration at all,
that you should save a back-up copy of the Registry, create a System Restore Point and also save a detailed log,
of all of the changes that you make, to a text file, as this is a good point of reference, should there be any problems with what you have done.

I think this is good practice in any case, because if you keep a log of all of the modifications that you make to your PC, it can be helpful,
should there be any problems with the system, caused for example, by the installation of a new application, or changing a system configuration setting.
Rather than having to depend on remembering every single thing that you do on your PC, you can always monitor, both negative and positive effects,
of what you have done, by referring to the log file, should you decide to keep one.

Additions to previously disabled services

Application Layer Gateway Service - Provides support for 3rd party protocol plug-ins for Internet Connection Sharing and the Windows Firewall - Manual.
Ati HotKey Poller - No dpendencies - No Description - No start or stop - Manual.
Background Intelligent Transfer Service - Used by Windows Update and MSNExplorer - Manual.
Computer Browser - Maintains an updated list of computers on the network and supplies this list to computers - Manual.
Distributed Transaction Coordinator - Coordinates transactions that span multiple resource managers, such as databases, message queues - Manual,
Extensible Authentication Protocol Service - Provides windows clients Extensible Authentication Protocol Service - Manual.
Health Key and Certificate Management Service - Manages health certificates and keys (used by NAP) - Manual.
HTTP SSL - This service implements the secure hypertext transfer protocol (HTTPS) for the HTTP service, - Manual.
IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service - Manages CD recording using Image Mastering Applications Programming Interface (IMAPI). - Manual.
Indexing Service - Indexes contents and properties of files on local and remote computers; provides rapid access to files - Manual.
Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service - Configures hard disk drives and volumes. The service only runs for configuration processes and then stops - Manual.
MS Software Shadow Copy Provider - Manages software-based volume shadow copies taken by the Volume Shadow Copy service. - Manual.
Net Logon - Supports pass-through authentication of account logon events for computers in a domain - Disabled.
NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing - Enables an authorized user to access this computer remotely by using NetMeeting over a corporate intranet - Disabled.
Network Access Protection Agent - Allows windows clients to participate in Network Access Protection - Manual.
Network Connections - Manages objects in the Network/Dial-Up Connections folder, in which you can view lan/Remote connections - Manual.
Network Location Awareness [NLA] - Collects/stores network configuration/location info and notifies applications when this info changes - Manual.
Network Provisioning Service - Manages XML configuration files on a domain basis for automatic network provisioning - Manual.
NT LM Security Support Provider - Provides security to remote procedure call (RPC) programs that use transports other than named pipes - Manual.
Performance Logs and Alerts - Collects performance data from local or remote computers based on preconfigured schedule parameters, - Manual.
then writes the data to a log or triggers an alert - Manual.
Print Spooler - Loads files to memory for later printing - Disabled.
QoS RSVP - Provides network signaling and local traffic control setup functionality for QoS-aware programs/applets - Manual.
Removable Storage - No description - Disabled.
Smart Card - Manages access to smart cards read by this computer - Disabled.
Telephony - Provides Telephony API (TAPI) support for programs that control telephony devices and IP based voice
connections on the local computer and, through the LAN, on servers that are also running the service - Manual.
Terminal Services - Allows multiple users to be connected interactively to a machine as well as the display of desktops and
applications to remote computers. The underpinning of Remote Desktop (including RD for Administrators),
Fast User Switching, Remote Assistance, and Terminal Server - Disabled.
Uninterruptible Power Supply - Manages an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) connected to the computer - Disabled.
Volume Shadow Copy - Manages and implements Volume Shadow Copies used for backup and other purposes. - Manual.
Windows Image Acquisition [WIA] - Provides image acquisition services for scanners and cameras - Manual.
Windows Installer - Adds, modifies, and removes applications provided as a Windows Installer (*.msi) package - Manual.
Windows Management Instrumentation
Driver Extensions - Provides systems management information to and from drivers - Manual.
Wired AutoConfig - This service performs IEEE 802.1X authentication on Ethernet interfaces - Manual.
Wireless Zero Configuration - Provides automatic configuration for the 802.11 adapters - Manual.
WMI Performance Adapter - Provides performance library information from WMI HiPerf providers - Manual.
Workstation - Creates and maintains client network connections to remote servers - Manual.

All together, with the Services that were previously Disabled, I now have a total of 58 Services,
that do not run automatically at system start-up, which I would imagine, saves a fair amount of system resources.

The number of Services, that you may be able to either Stop or Disable, on your own PC, will, once again,
depend upon the software that you have installed and your system configuration.

Once again, I hope that this may have been of some interest to some of you here.