In any system with a large amount of installed software, you can notice that any application activates its own service, not to mention the fact that in the system they work in the same background just a lot. Let's see how to remove unnecessary services in Windows 7 using the simplest methods. At the same time, we will explain how to clean the system yet so that it works somewhat faster.
How to remove a service in Windows 7: general principles of approach to the task
It is no secret that the system itself and installed applications activate their own processes, which may simply not be visible to the user. What is most sad, all this passes, so to speak, past his eyes.
He pays attention to these components only when the system begins to frankly slow down or freeze, or even reboot. This is where the understanding comes of how to remove a service in Windows 7, which uses the maximum consumption of system resources or openly loads the system unnecessarily.
The very first and easiest step is to clear the startup menu. Of course, the removal of the service will not take place, but you can disable any of the bootable components. To do this, the universal msconfig command is used, which is entered in the Run menu bar (Win + R for quick access). Here, on the autoload tab, you can disable almost anything you want, except to leave the antivirus module (however, it will not give the user the right to disconnect itself if it is a serious package, and not some cheap or free scanner).
How to remove a Windows 7 service from the command line
If anyone does not know, the command line always saves. Is the system not working or not loading? No question - three teams, and everything works again. The same applies to some components installed in the system, which, to put it mildly, can simply interfere or take up too many resources (for example, program updaters or the same flash player, installers of Windows modules and updates, etc.).
In principle, you can deal with all these manifestations. Run the services.msc command from the standard Run menu and stop the necessary component.
After that, go directly to the command line where we write sc delete “service name” (without quotes) and press Enter. By the way, in order not to do unnecessary things, you can simply copy the process name from the editor mentioned above.
Removing registry keys
Now let's see how to remove the Windows 7 service using the keys and registry entries. We will make a reservation right away: the method for uninitiated users is quite unsafe, since incorrect actions can affect the system’s performance and lead to its complete crash.
Nevertheless ... We call the registry editor with the regedit command from the same Run menu and go to the HKLM branch. Next, we use the SYSTEM directory and the CurrentControlSet subfolder, where we find the Services directory. Opening the last one, you can see everything that is installed in working condition. Accordingly, you can delete the unnecessary by previewing the parameters for finding files by the ImagePath and DisplayName parameters.
Stopping the System Update Service
As for the installed updates, uninstalling the Windows 7 update service, no matter how much you would like to, simply will not work, because it is what is called "wired" into the system. The only thing that can be done is to only disable it, but no more.
To do this, you need to go to Windows Update, and there you can set the desired parameter (either a complete shutdown, or a notification before downloading and installing, etc.). BUT! Quite often then problems begin with some related programs, for which such updates are critical in the work (the same antiviruses). So it is not recommended to disable this service, otherwise the same “seven” will give a blue screen if it is impossible to update, due to a conflict with some software product. No need to go far. The same obsolete Office 2003 creates exactly such problems.
Disabling or removing unnecessary components
Finally, if one already understands the question of how to remove a service in Windows 7, one cannot ignore some components of the system that the user almost never starts, and they, so to speak, hang dead weight.
We are talking about the components of the system, which can be found in the corresponding section of the "Control Panel" related to the installation and removal of programs. Here the field of activity is very wide. You can, for example, disable the print service if there is no printer in the system, do not use the Hyper-V module, do not use the remote Telnet connection, in general, you can disable a lot of things. But without special knowledge, this is not recommended.
Quick completion
That's basically all about how to remove a service in Windows 7. But if we talk about the quick completion of a process or service (working or freezing), of course, in the same “Task Manager” you can make a forced shutdown. However, this does not mean that the process or service will be deleted.
Yes, and remember that deleting files and folders like PerfLogs or HOSTS will not work - they will still be restored when the system is rebooted, and the services accompanying them will remain untouched. However, you can put some kind of optimizer like Advanced System Care, which in real time will simply unload unnecessary processes from memory. But that is another question.