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Turn Off Unnecessary Windows Services, Speed up PC

Windows is notorious for having useless features and CPU resource hogging programs/services enabled by default. Today’s post is about removing some of the useless services. Services are kind of like startup programs, they are usually not necessary, they slow down your computer, and they slow down the boot up process; however, some are useful so thats why I have made a list of ones to get rid of.0 To turn off services in windows you go to Start > Run > Type: 'services.msc ' > Double Click on the service you want to alter and change the startup type to disabled or manual as directed in the list of unnecessary services below. Unnecessary Windows Services AdobeLM Service : Not all computers have this service, still it is useless, just disable it if you have it. Alerter : Disable this one if you are not on a network because you don’t need to receive alerts. Application Management : Set this to manual. Automatic Updates : Disable it if you don’t require au...

List of Run Commands for Windows 7

I'm posting a list of Run Commands every PowerUser or Administrator should know in bold below. So if you know anymore new ones, Please Post them here hope this helps!    Windows logo key + R Administrative Tools Administrative Tools = control admintools Authorization Manager = azman.msc Component Services = dcomcnfg Certificate Manager = certmgr.msc Direct X Troubleshooter = dxdiag Display Languages = lpksetup ODBC Data Source Administrator = odbcad32 File Signature Verification Tool = sigverif Group Policy Editor = gpedit.msc Add Hardware Wizard = hdwwiz.cpl iSCSI Initiator = iscsicpl Iexpress Wizard = iexpress Local Security Settings = secpol.msc Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool = msdt Microsoft Management Console = mmc Print management = printmanagement.msc Printer User Interface = printui Problems Steps Recorder = psr People Near Me = p2phost Registry Editor = regedit or regedt32 Resoure Monitor = resmon System Configuration Utility = ...