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Re: Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10

From Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject Re: Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10
Date 2025-01-18 02:25 +0200
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On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 08:18:44 -0500, Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam>
wrote:

>On 1/16/2025 8:32 PM, MR wrote:
>> On 16/01/2025 11:44, John C. wrote:
>>> I am planning on disabling unnecessary services on my Windows 10 Pro
>>> computer.
>> 
>> Very good idea. You can then blame Indians and Chinese if your computer
>> doesn't work as expected.
>> 
>
>   Do you just assume that Microsoft knows best in all things?
>Did you know that "Retail Demo" service is enabled by default?
>That's for setting a computer to be a sample in Staples. Windows
>computers are assumed to be corporate workstations (or retail
>demos). Even the "Home" version. They're set up accordingly. For
>better security and efficiency, adjusting services can be useful.

Though that is true, I look at the list of Windows services and have
no idea what most of them are used for. I'm reluctant to mess with
things that I know too little about. 


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Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10 "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-16 03:44 -0800
  Re: Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10 "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-16 03:45 -0800
  Re: Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10 "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-16 03:50 -0800
  Re: Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10 Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-16 08:54 -0500
    Re: Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-16 12:43 -0500
      Re: Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10 Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-16 14:05 -0500
  Re: Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10 MR <MR@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-17 01:32 +0000
    Re: Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10 Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-17 08:18 -0500
      Re: Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10 Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-01-18 02:25 +0200
        Re: Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-17 21:07 -0500
      Re: Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10 ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 13:01 -0700
        Re: Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10 Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-18 16:53 -0500
          Re: Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-18 18:06 -0500
            Re: Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10 Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-18 20:46 -0500
          Re: Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10 ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-19 12:20 -0700
            Re: Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10 Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-19 19:51 +0000
  Re: Disabling unneeded services in Windows 10 wasbit <wasbit@nowhere.com> - 2025-01-22 10:40 +0000

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