Re: Re-enabling unneeded services in Windows (until they are needed)

[email protected] (Ant) Thu, 16 Jan 2025 23:18:27 +0000
Newsgroups alt.comp.periphs.printers,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.os.windows-11
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In alt.comp.os.windows-10 Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > c. My philosophy is I should run the spooler - only when I want to print
> > 
> > Is that logical to assume services should be off until needed?
> > And then, is it logical to assume it should be easy to turn them on?

> No harm for you as you're aware of what is/could be running, but the 
> number of services has mushroomed in the last decade, there are plenty 
> of services which I don't know what the ramification are of stopping 
> them ...

For me, I only disable the services I know for sure like BlueTooth and 
wireless when my custom built PC don't even ahve them.

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