Make your Windows Vista faster by stopping services you don’t need with Microsoft Management Console.

Services are special programs that perform different functions and have the purpose to support other programs on your computer. For example, the Fax service allows you to send and receive faxes, using the resources found on your computer (by resources I mean a fax software).

Although a lot of the services you find on your computer are useful, there are some that you may never use and it would be a good idea to turn them off (services run in background and they will keep running for as long as the computer remains turned on).

Disable unused services with Microsoft Management Console

To start the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) press the Start orb, in the search box type services.msc and select Services. In the console that appears you can find all of the services currently running in your computer. As you can see the Service Console offers plenty of information and also allows you to sort the services by Description, Status and Startup Type. Note that if you click on a service, a detailed description of the service appears on the left hand side (make sure you’re in Extended mode).

To stop a service, simply right click on it and select Stop. Before you go ahead and do this, you should carefully read the description of each services you want to disable. Even though most of the services contain a self-explanatory description, you might want to do some extra research just to make sure you are not disabling any important services. I recommend reading Black Viper's Windows Vista Service Configurations