20 Services in Windows 10 that Can be Stopped Without Any Risk

But just like any other human invention, Windows 10 also has a few downsides. It is somewhat of a resource-intensive OS. This will surely sound like an alarm to people who were so looking forward to the release of Microsoft’s latest wonderkid, but they, unfortunately, can’t afford any more than the modest PC they already possess.

However, there are some tweaks we can perform just to minimize the impact on the RAM. Here I mean temporarily shutting down services to achieve more system speed.

Be advised! Disabling services isn’t an easy job and you have to be very careful about the services you are going to disable because disabling a wrong one might have a drastic effect on your operating system or might cause your OS to come crashing down.

But we have come up with a list of services that can easily be stopped without worrying about any consequences. All in all, these add up to 20 services which aren’t that necessary and you can easily get rid of them. For the benefit of our readers, we’ve given a brief description of every service as well. Before we begin, let’s see how can we disable a service in Windows 10.

Disable a Service in Win 10

1. 1. Open the Start menu.

1. 1. Type Services and open the app that comes up in the search.

1. 1. A new Window will open and will have all the services that you can tweak.

1. 1. Double-click a service you want to disable.

1. 1. From Startup Type: choose Disabled.

1. Click OK.

If you want to play even safer and looking for an extreme speed boost in Windows 10, consider using the RegInOut System Utilities and it’s Services Optimizer feature. RegInOut’s extreme-gaming profile feature is quite useful to quickly optimize your Windows 10.

Now let’s take a look at which services you can manually disable safely.

1. 1. Xbox Live Game Save: This service is responsible for syncing any saved data for games that have Xbox Live save enabled.
   2. Xbox Live Auth Manager: This service provides the authentication and authorization services to communicate with Xbox Live.
   3. AllJoyn Router Service: This service is used for routing the AllJoyn messages for AllJoyn clients.

2. Bluetooth Support Service: This service is in charge of discovering and working with Bluetooth devices. Turning it off is safe if your computer doesn’t have a Bluetooth module.

3. Geolocation Service: This service is responsible for monitoring the current location of your system.

4. Phone Service: This service manages the telephony state on the computer.
   

5. Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service: This service handles touch keyboard and handwriting panel pen and ink functionality.

6. Windows Biometric Service: This service is responsible for capturing and storing biometric data without gaining access to the biometric hardware.

7. Windows Mobile Hotspot Service: This service enables a user to share cellular data with other devices.

8. Adobe Acrobat Update Service: This service manages the updates of all Adobe Acrobat applications.

9. Downloaded Maps Manager: This service allows different installed applications to have access to the downloaded maps.

10. Internet Explorer ETW Collector Service: This service collects real-time ETW events from Internet Explorer and processes them.

11. Print Spooler: This service handles the interaction between the printer and the computer. Disabling it will disable the ability to print.

12. Skype Updater: This service helps download and install the latest Skype updates.

13. Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service: This service lets the user share Windows Media Player libraries to other networked players or music devices.

14. Windows Update: This service is used for detecting, downloading and installing latest Windows updates.

15. Auto Time Zone Update: This service works in order to update the time zone automatically.

16. Bluetooth Handsfree Service: This service handles the computer’s connection with Bluetooth headsets.

17. Enterprise App Management Service: This service is responsible for  managing various enterprise apps.

18. Hyper-V Heartbeat Service: This service is used for monitoring the state of a virtual machine by sending heartbeats at regular intervals.