Here is some information on some common services to stop and disable. I like to
disable help and support, error reporting service, messenger, remote registry,
SSDP and UPNP host.

As you can see. This will disable some services that need to be for security or just beacuse
it is not needed to run Windows.

Simply cut and paste the information below into a new doc and save it as a .bat file

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@ECHO OFF
REM Script to disble services


ECHO "This will stop and disable the following"
ECHO " Help and Support"
ECHO " Error Reporting Service"
ECHO " Messenger Service"
ECHO " Remote Registry Service"
ECHO " SSDP Service"
ECHO " UPNP Host "

ECHO " Any key to continue. Otherwise "X" or crtl-C will exit" 

pause

ECHO "Stoping Help and Support"
sc stop helpsvc
sc config helpsvc start= disabled
ECHO "Help and Support Disabled"

 

ECHO "Stoping Error Reporting Service"
sc stop ersvc
sc config ersvc start= disabled
ECHO "Error Reporting Service Disabled"
 

ECHO " Stoping Messenger Service"
sc config messenger start= disabled
sc stop messenger
ECHO "Messenger Service Disabled"
 

ECHO " Stoping Remote Registry Service"
sc config remoteregistry start= disabled
sc stop remoteregistry
ECHO "Remote Registry Disabled"
 

ECHO " Stoping SSDP Service"
sc stop ssdpsrv
sc config ssdpsrv start= disabled
ECHO "SSDP Service Disabled"
 

ECHO " Stoping UPNP Host"
sc stop upnphost
sc config upnphost start= disabled
ECHO "UPNP Host Disabled"
 
ECHO  
ECHO  
ECHO "Finished. hit any key to continue."

pause
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