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Tweaking Windows 10

December 9, 2015, 17:33(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Windows 10 Services
Yeah, I know Win10 fires up a lots of services. Lots of folks are in a hurry to disable services. I get it. Back in the Windows XP days this could make a big difference. With todays wicked fast PCs and Win10s fantastic memory management, this is no longer the case.
Many sites will try and convince you to disable services that do not start by default. This is pointless. Disabling services unnecessarily can lead to problems and you’ve gained nothing.
A warning. Lots of folks/sites/guides will tell you to delete a service (sc delete). Do not delete services. This can lead to a host of problems.
There are only a few services I’m going to recommend you disable and I will explain why.

Connected User Experiences and Telemetry
Disable – Part of Win10 telemetry. See Windows 10 Privacy Settings

Distributed Link Tracking Client
Manual – Usually OK to disable but there is an odd app or 2 that uses this. Manual setting is best.

dmwappushservice
Disable – Part of Win10 telemetry. See Windows 10 Privacy Settings

Geolocation Service
Leave alone. Turn this off via Settings > Privacy > Geolocation.

TweakHound’s Win10 Services Recommendations For Home Users
Name Status Startup Type Settings, etc.
Application Information Running Manual (Trigger Start) Needed
Background Tasks Infrastructure Service Running Automatic Needed
Base Filtering Engine Running Automatic Needed
Bluetooth Support Service Running Manual (Trigger Start) Only running if you have Bluetooth
CNG Key Isolation Running Manual (Trigger Start) Needed
COM+ Event System Running Automatic Needed
Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Running Automatic Disable
CoreMessaging Running Automatic Needed
Credential Manager Running Manual Needed
Cryptographic Services Running Automatic Needed
DCOM Server Process Launcher Running Automatic Needed
Device Association Service Running Automatic (Trigger Start) Needed
Device Install Service Running Manual (Trigger Start) Needed
DHCP Client Running Automatic Needed
Diagnostic Policy Service Running Automatic Needed
Diagnostic Service Host Running Manual Needed
Diagnostic System Host Running Manual Needed
Distributed Link Tracking Client Running Automatic For home usually OK to disable. Best to set to Manual
dmwappushservice Manual (Trigger Start) Disable. Not auto started but this is part of Win10 telemetry.
DNS Client Running Automatic (Trigger Start) Needed
Function Discovery Provider Host Running Manual Needed
Function Discovery Resource Publication Running Manual Needed
Geolocation Service Running Manual (Trigger Start) The “trigger” is your Privacy > Geolocation settings. Turn it off there.
Human Interface Device Service Running Manual (Trigger Start) Needed
IP Helper Running Automatic Needed
Local Session Manager Running Automatic Needed
Network Connected Devices Auto-Setup Running Manual (Trigger Start) Needed
Network Connection Broker Running Manual (Trigger Start) Needed
Network List Service Running Manual Needed
Network Location Awareness Running Automatic Needed
Network Store Interface Service Running Automatic Needed
Plug and Play Running Manual Needed
Power Running Automatic Needed
Print Spooler Running Automatic Needed
Program Compatibility Assistant Service Running Automatic Needed
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Running Automatic Needed
RPC Endpoint Mapper Running Automatic Needed
Security Accounts Manager Running Automatic Needed
Security Center Running Automatic (Delayed Start) Needed
Server Running Automatic Needed
Shell Hardware Detection Running Automatic Needed
SSDP Discovery Running Manual Needed
State Repository Service Running Manual Needed
Superfetch Running Automatic Needed
System Event Notification Service Running Automatic Needed
System Events Broker Running Automatic (Trigger Start) Needed
Task Scheduler Running Automatic Needed
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Running Manual (Trigger Start) Needed if you are networked with older Windows Oss, Linux, some printers…
Themes Running Automatic Needed
Tile Data model server Running Automatic Needed
Time Broker Running Manual (Trigger Start) Needed if you want your time kept accurate via internet.
User Manager Running Automatic (Trigger Start) Needed
User Profile Service Running Automatic Needed
Windows Audio Running Automatic Needed
Windows Audio Endpoint Builder Running Automatic Needed
Windows Connection Manager Running Automatic (Trigger Start) Needed
Windows Defender Network Inspection Service Running Manual Needed
Windows Defender Service Running Automatic Needed
Windows Driver Foundation
User-mode Driver Framework
Running Manual (Trigger Start) Needed
Windows Event Log Running Automatic Needed
Windows Firewall Running Automatic Needed
Windows Font Cache Service Running Automatic Needed
Windows License Manager Service Running Manual (Trigger Start) Needed
Windows Management Instrumentation Running Automatic Needed
Windows Search Running Automatic (Delayed Start) Needed
Windows Update Running Manual (Trigger Start) Needed
WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service Running Manual Needed
WLAN AutoConfig Running Automatic Needed
Workstation Running Automatic Needed

 

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  1. Paradise says

    December 10, 2015, 13:59(EST) at 13:59

    I think Classic Shell is far superior to anything out there and free.

  2. JackL says

    December 11, 2015, 14:07(EST) at 14:07

    Hi Eric,

    Excellent job. I will have to re-read the whole thing again… My favorite is moving all the DOCS, Pix and Misc. to a separate drive. In this way, I can do more frequent OS backups that will not fill the backup drive too fast.

    Issues on my end:
    1. When I try to change Geolocation Service to AUTOMATIC, I get “the system cannot find the file specified”. Any suggestions?
    2. On your tweaks p. 13, you have more options. On Shutdown settings, I only have SLEEP and LOCK. You additionally have: Turn on fast startup and Hibernate. Are you running Win 10 Enterprise?

    Suggestion: It would be great to compile everything into a PDF file that can serve as desktop reference.

    • Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) says

      December 13, 2015, 08:58(EST) at 08:58

      Geolocation: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dn764773.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
      Shutdown settings may vary depending on setup.
      PDF: https://www.tweakhound.com/buy-tweaking-windows-10/

    • Robert Medley says

      March 12, 2016, 10:41(EST) at 10:41

      This is funny and just for a point of reference I have worked in IT primarily in Computer and Network installation, support, maintenance for 21 years now and have read Eric’s guides since Windows XP as it is one of the easiest ways to get great info on the manipulation of Operating systems and he is about as complete as it gets.

      Anyway the way I organize my files is on seperate hard drives internally and with USB media containers most often now (I have 2 64 Gb’s I use and on 256 GB one as well given to me by Corsair. My computer is set up with 3 hard drives (which I would like to grow to 5 with two or 7 in raid sets in 0,1 and 10 (0,1 being options with 5 and 10 being with 7). The first of course is the OS drive otherwise generally known as C:\ and the other two are P:\ programs, and M:\Media which I organize relatively often and I have backups and everything of course external from the OS drive which is also a Corsair Pro SSD and the things on it are often used, and active programs such as Office etcetera but not generally big saves (I like to keep SSD’s relatively light in volume)!

  3. Kelly says

    December 12, 2015, 11:22(EST) at 11:22

    Two things…
    1) Excellent job Eric! One thing I miss is the Logoff, Shutdown, and Restart tiles to which I pin to my taskbar…But hey that’s just me..
    2) Might as well make it a sixer…LOL

  4. Ray says

    December 12, 2015, 22:34(EST) at 22:34

    Excellent work! This really takes all the “mystery” out of running and securing this OS…at least for me. A quick “typo” to correct. On page 3, when copying the GOD MODE title, the space between the period after the word MODE, and the first parentheses has to be removed for it to work.
    Thank you again for all your hard work!

    • Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) says

      December 13, 2015, 08:46(EST) at 08:46

      Fixed. Thanks!

  5. JackL says

    January 13, 2016, 12:48(EST) at 12:48

    Defragment and optimize your drives bug

    There is a bug in Win 10, V 1511 build 10586.17 setting for “defragment and optimize your drives”. If I turn my HDD defrag schedule to ON, my SSD gets switched on too. If I turn OFF SSD defrag, HDD defrag is also turned off. I have defrag for all drives turned off turned OFF and will do it manually.

  6. danielson says

    March 30, 2016, 09:30(EDT) at 09:30

    I have 8Gs of RAM on a 32bit Windows with SSD on a laptop and it boots twice as fast (average 30 sec.) as Windows 10 32 or 64bit (1 min. +) – and Windows 32 bit can only use 4Gs of RAM max.!

    Same programs and all drivers all up to date on both so go figure!

    • Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) says

      March 30, 2016, 11:41(EDT) at 11:41

      https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366778%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

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