Win 2008 Services Tuning

[zeh]

Hello,

I´m from Brazil, and running windows 2008 in my laptop a few days. It´s have 512mb but 2008 running perfectly. Now, i testing the services default, disabling services to save cpu and ram. It´s a list of services disable for me, and wanna tips about others services can be disable:

Application Management Service
Background Intelligent Transfer Service
Desktop Window Manager Session Manager Service
Distributed Link Tracking Client Service
Distributed Transaction Coordinator Service
DNS Client Service
Human Interface Device Access Service
IPsec Policy Agent
Messenger Sharing Folders USN Journal Reader service
Print Spooler
Windows Search
Server
Windows Time
Windows Remote Management (WS-Management)
WebClient

[Stige]

I really cant remember which one of these are disabled by default but this is my list of “Disabled” Windows Server 2008 Services:

Application Experience
Application Layer Gateway Service
Application Management
ASP.NET State Service
Ati External Event Utility
Background Intelligent Transfer Service
Base Filtering Engine
Certificate Propagation
Diagnostic Policy Service
Diagnostic Service Host
Diagnostic System Host
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Distributed Transaction Coordinator
DNS Client
Function Discovery Provider Host
Fuction Discovery Resourse Publication
IKE and AuthIP IPsec Keying Modules
Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
IP Helper
IPsec Policy Agent
KtmRm for Distributed Transaction Coordinator
Logitech Bluetooth Service
Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service
Netlogon
Offline Files
PnP-X IP Bus Enumerator
Portable Device Enumerator Service
Print Spooler
Problem Reports and Solutions Control Panel Support
Remote Access Auto Connection Manager
Remote Access Connection Manager
Remote Registry
Routing and Remote Access
Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol Service
SL UI Notification Service
Smart Card
Smart Card Removal Policy
SSDP Discovery
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Telephony
Terminal Services
Terminal Services UserMode Port Redirector
Themes
UPnP Device Host
Windows Error Reporting Service
Windows Firewall
Windows Management Instrumentation
Windows Remote Management (WS-Management)
Windows Time
Windows Update
WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service

Works pretty fine for me with the above set to “Disabled”.

[zeh]

Stige,

My services are more or less as you post. In instalation, i selected “Windows 2008 Standard” and believes for my use it´s the better option.

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