Tweaking of Windows 7
Services

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There are 145 services for Windows 7 and this list shows 62 of them disabled.

Note: You may not want to disable all of these services, you may need them such as the Windows Media Center services.

Windows 7 64 Bit before disabling the services the OS was

Windows 7 32 Bit before disabling the services and tweaking the desktop the OS was using 335 Meg of ram. After tweaking the OS is using 265 meg a savings of 90 Meg. (This Win 7 does not have any anit-virus, trojan, or spyware software installed).

Note: These memory settings are from Win 7 32 and 64 Bit running in a VM Ware Virtual Computer, physical computer memory will be more because more hardware will be installed.

The more you turn off that isn't being used will add up in memory and processor savings. Lower memory and processor usage is lower power usage and lower heat generation.

Security Center and Windows Firewall should only be disabled if and only if you are behind a hardware firewall such as a router or a Server firewall. Do not disable on a laptop that is used at airports, Internet Cafe's or when traveling. Normally networks that are isolated from the internet through a firewall and proxy will have difficulties connecting to the local domain when the Windows Firewall service is active. One way around this is to write a GPO that sets the required rules to every computer in the domain. This is a labor intensive task and needs to be tested thoroughly before implementing in a large environment.

Tweaking Windows 7 like any other Operating System takes time and with the newer OS's a lot of the services depend on other services. That is if a service uses another service and that service isn't running then you will receive an error that the depenacncy service is not started and the service you wanted to start failed to start - (Does this make sense to you?) This is why you can't just go turn off a service because you don't want it to run, you have to make sure that some other service doesn't need the one you want to turn off.

As always test your settings before going on to the next one, if the service has a dependency and you turn off all of them at once you will wind up reinstalling the OS!

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