Windows 10: Why there's a lot of useless services open all the time?

To be honest, since the time i got this new computer w/ Windows 10, i realized that when i open the Task Manager, there's a lot of useless services, that may take or not take a lot of the CPU/memory/disk/GPU Things that do not need to be open all the time, just like microsoft store, paint 3d, email, etc...I realize that having those services there makes the whole process when opening the app faster, just like office, but man, those take a lot of memory and CPU, because of them i'm always at 78% memory and 13-17% CPUCan i shut those down? Should i shut those down?

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Know how to get useless stuff out of Open With menus?

@dalchina

Weeeell, I used your suggested program (which is verrry interesting, BTW, so I'm gonna keep 'er), but no luck. Paint is gone, but I think Paint was removable with just the additional step I mentioned above: editing the MRU list. But LO Draw and Snipper-Snak persist.





I'm thinking I may be able to eliminate the associations for some file types from within the GUI for LO Draw. I'l give that a try.

And as for the annoying S & S, I think I recall Brink saying (in one of the tutorials) that some MS apps were just not removable from some context menus.

Thank you for your help and for the new toy, dalchina.

 

unable to start the Windows time service on Windows 10

Hi Enriq,

As you are facing issue with starting the Windows Time Service, do not worry we will help you with this issue.

Do let us know the following to assist you better with this issue:

• What exactly happens when you try to turn on the service?
• What is the complete error message/ error code of this issue?
• Have you made any changes to the operating system prior to this issue?

Method 1: I suggest you to run a SFC scan and check if it helps.

System File Checkeris a utility in Windows that allows users to scan for corruptions in Windows system files and restore corrupted files.

Follow the below steps:

• Right click on the Start button, click on
  Command Prompt (Admin).
• Type “sfc /scannow” without the quotes and hit
  Enter.
• After the scan, restart the computer and check for the issue.

Note: If you are not able to repair some files after performing SFC scan, I suggest you to refer to the point 3 “Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to
fix some of them. Details are included in the CBS.Log %WinDir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log”. Under the section “Run the System File Checker tool (SFC.exe)” to repair the corrupted files after performing SFC scan.

Refer: Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files

Method 2: I suggest you to Restart Windows Time Service and check if it helps.

Windows Time Service maintains date and time synchronization on all clients and servers in the network. If this service is stopped date and time synchronization will be unavailable. If this service is disabled,
any services that explicitly depends on it will fail to start.

Step 1: Stop the service:

• Press Windows Key + R on the keyboard and type
  services.msc, Services window gets opened.
• Search for Windows Time service and stop.
• To do so, right click on each service select Stop
• Restart the device.

Step 2: Start the service and set it to automatic:

• Press Windows Key + R on the keyboard and type
  services.msc, Services window gets opened.
• Search for Windows Time service, right click on it and click on
  Properties.
• Start the service, set
  Startup type to Automatic.

Hope it helps. Kindly update the status of accessing the Windows Time Service for further assistance.

Thank you.

 

Problem with services timing out at boot

Hi Peter,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

I understand that some of the system services fail to start or end up timing out. We will help you.

To assist you better, I suggest you to answer some questions below.

• Which was the latest update installed in your PC?
• What edition of Windows 10 are you using?
• Were there any software changes made prior to the issue?
• Which services are interrupting at the startup to start automatically?
• What all steps you tried to resolve the issue?

Please post us back with the information above to help you better.