I frequently have to tweak and optimize the operating systems that I work with. And one of the things that I do as part of my check list is to disabled unnecessary services that are safe to do so which won’t impact usability of the desktop.

The lists of services which are to be disabled was taken from Black Viper’s resourceful website.

Save the following as a batch file and run it.

Windows XP SP3

net stop Alerter
net stop ClipSrv
net stop HidServ
net stop Messenger
net stop NetDDE
net stop NetDDEdsdm
net stop RemoteAccess
net stop ERSvc
net stop cisvc
net stop Netlogon
net stop mnmsrvc
net stop xmlprov
net stop WmdmPmSN
net stop RSVP
net stop RDSessMgr
net stop RemoteRegistry
net stop seclogon
net stop SCardSvr
net stop LmHosts
net stop TlntSvr
net stop UPS
net stop WebClient
net stop W32Time
net stop WmiApSrv

Windows 7 SP1

net stop RemoteAccess
net stop NetTcpPortSharing
net stop Mcx2Svc
net stop SharedAccess
net stop WSearch
net stop WMPNetworkSvc
net stop wcncsvc
net stop StorSvc
net stop SNMPTRAP
net stop SCPolicySvc
net stop SCardSvr
net stop RemoteRegistry
net stop RpcLocator
net stop WPCSvc
net stop CscService
net stop napagent
net stop Netlogon
net stop MSiSCSI
net stop iphlpsvc
net stop TrkWks
net stop CertPropSvc
net stop PeerDistSvc
net stop bthserv
net stop AppMgmt