Windows 7 Services

[edmond419]

Hi all

I want to know, what services can I turn off or disable to cut down on memory use and to lower the number of processes running on my laptop, but retain wireless and ethernet usage, audio and aero theme.

Also, I want to know what in Windows 7 takes up about 800MB of RAM on fresh install? Again in a separate list, what can I turn off to cut RAM use down to about 200MB?

Thanks all!

 

[Saga Lout]

Care must be taken here. Press your Windows key and R together and into the open box, type cmd then hit Enter. At the Command Prompt, type tasklist /svc (including the space) and hit Enter. Right click anywhere in the black form and scroll to SelectAll then press Enter to put it all into the clipboard. Post the details back here by pressing Control and V together in the reply form and posters can advise what you might be able to lose.

 

[4745454b]

http://www.blackviper.com/2010/12/17/black-vipers-windows-7-service-pack-1-service-configurations/

I haven't read it, but it's your best shot. I also doubt you'll ever get it down to 200mbs. Time for a new laptop.

 

[edmond419]

The laptop I am doing this on is for someone else ... a netbook with W7 starter and 1G of RAM and has running out of RAM issues resulting in speed issues due to HDD swapping, so I want to cut down the usage to bare minimum. atm I don't have access to so I can't get a task list..

A HP netbook

 

[Saga Lout]

I suggest they up that 1Gb to at least 2 and even then it's doubtful W7 will run much faster. Are you sure that machine wasn't made to run XP only?

 

[4745454b]

Fine, its time for a new netbook.

Removing processes will help, but Vista/win7 wasn't designed to run on only 1GB of ram. Check out that blackviper link. Perhaps it can be shoe horned into something smaller. If not, getting an SSD is perhaps an option.

 

[edmond419]

The netbook came with Windows 7, 1G of RAM ... same with any other netbook that my friends had, which also is W7, 1G RAM

 

[sedona]

These are the services running on my Windows 7, and took up 2GB of memory. What can I stop or remove from this list?

 

[Dragonburn]

Windows 7 Starter edition is a bare-bones system and was designed around the 1gig of RAM that it was issued with, but still, those systems are virtually little more than glorified notepads and are designed pretty much just for checking e-mail and creating a document here and there. You won't have a lot of room to work with, as Windows 7 Starter has almost no memory intensive services running, but it is possible that through installations and other programs starting up that your memory problem isn't to do with Windows so much as everything else they are trying to run.

 

[Dragonburn]

Also, try running the Resource Manager from the All Programs>Accessories>System Tools menu and it will tell you exactly what is using your RAM and how much it is using.