Windows 10: Disabling Diagnostic Policy Service

I just disabled the Diagnostic Policy Service, Diagnostic Service Host, and the Diagnostic System Host.

Is there any adverse actions that this may cause? So far I have not noticed any.

Once I get my Windows Settings the way I like, they normally stay the same, as I do not do any updates.

Thanks.

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Hi Anil,

We appreciate you sharing with us how you get to resolve the issue you were experiencing with your PC's performance.

Here are the things you want to know about disabling the services you've already disabled:

• Disabling the Search service will stop the indexing of all files. You'll still have an access to search but this time, it will take longer since it has to search through your files every time. You may trim down the files that are getting
  indexed instead of disabling the said service.
  
• The Diagnostic Policy service enables problem detection, troubleshooting, and resolution for Windows components. Stopping this service, diagnostics will no longer function and any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.
  
• The Diagnostic Service Host is used by the Diagnostic Policy Service to host diagnostics that need to run in a Local Service context. Disabling this service, any diagnostics that depend on it will no longer function.
  
• The Diagnostic System Host is used by the Diagnostic Policy service to host diagnostics that need to run in a Local System context. Disabling this, any diagnostics that depend on it will also no longer function.
  

Basically, disabling a service means a domino effect for the services that depends on it. It seems that all the services that you've disabled are related to diagnostics.

Let us know if you have further queries.

Regards.

 

"The Diagnostics Policy Service is not running."

"The Diagnostics Policy Service is not running." Start up apps and cortana is not working when i click on it after windows 10 update. In addtion, windows firewall will not turn on. So many problems after updating windows. Please help.

 

my best guess would you will not notice anything till you have an issue and no tools to diagnosis the problem

 

Thanks, if that is the only thing, then I am ok with that. Just was wondering if anything else could happen.

 

Your machine can have issues and you will not know what they are. Believe it or not some services that MS has are useful. The Days of Black Viper's tweak are over. I have 122 process running now. I will leave them be as Microsoft at times knows what they are doing.

 

What examples do you have, as far as things going wrong

 

Turning all that stuff off for me made my system BSOD a few times.

 

I ended up turning it back on, I don't think it uses that much resources anyway. Just in case.

 

youre better off just setting it to a "manual" or "triggered" state rather than a "disabled" state.