October 4, 2006

Disable Unneeded Services in Vista

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As I stated earlier in this guide, Windows Vista™ is pretty stable out of the box. The following list of services do not *need* to be disabled but I reccomend it since they only serve to annoy you anyway (Security Center, anyone?)Disable the following:

  • Automatic Updates
  • Idwlog Service
  • Peer Name Resolution Protocol
  • Peer Networking Identity Manager
  • Pnrp Auto Registration
  • Pen Service
  • Security Center

NOTE: The Peer services are disabled because of a possible security issue with them and weird connections that have been reported when doing netstat -a.

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