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Windows Services, what changed from Windows 7 to Windows 8

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:02:48 +0000

Nearly 3 years ago I wrote a blog post about the Windows Services changes between Windows Vista and Windows 7. Assuming that we won’t see any big changes with regard to Services when Windows 8 will be released I repeated the exercise by looking at what has changed between Windows 7 Enterprise and the Windows 8 Consumer Preview Build.

To obtain the services data from each system, i executed the following PowerShell command:

Optimizations for Virtualized Windows 7 clients

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:18:51 +0000

Just found these two blog posts that describe some Registry and Services optimizations when running Windows 7 as a virtual client.

Windows 7 Registry Optimizations for Virtual Desktops

Windows 7 Optimization – Disable Services

Thanks to Daniel Feller for sharing this

Windows 7 Service Triggers

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:46:22 +0000

When taking a closer look at the Services in Windows 7 you will notice that many of them are configured to start manually but will be started when needed. For more details read my earlier posts Windows Services, what changed from Vista to Windows7 Part1 and Windows Services, What changed from Vista to Windows7 – Part2.

The technology behind starting Services when needed is called Service Triggers that were introduced with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. If you want the full inside scoop on Service Triggers I recommend that you read through the content listed below.

ToolTip: Windows Services Dependency Viewer

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:56:42 +0000

During my periodic visit on CodePlex I came across the Windows Services Dependency Viewer utility. The tool provides access to the following information:

Windows service dependent and antecedent services
Services grouped by process
Service details (from Win32_Service WMI class)
Service process details (from Win32_Process WMI class

This tool might come in handy once you start changing a specific Service’s startup mode.

The Windows Services Dependency Viewer can be downloaded from here Additional documentation can be found here

Windows Services, What changed from Vista to Windows7 - Part2

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:45:18 +0000

In part one of “Windows Services, What changed from Vista to Windows7” I highlighted the new, renamed and removed services that come with Windows7.

Some Services are not quite new, but are now just installed by default. One example is the ActiveX Installer Service.

The below table lists those Services where the startup mode was changed from Automatic (Vista) to manual (Win7).

Note that the “Status” for some Services on your system might be different. The list was produced right after having installed both the Windows Vista and Windows7 client within Hyper-V guest machines.

Windows Services, what changed from Vista to Windows7 Part1

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:34:52 +0000

Today I took a closer look at the Windows Services running on Windows7. A lot of the performance improvements with Windows7 are related to the way how and when services are being loaded so i thought it’s worth to see what’s happening there.

I first installed a Windows 7 build 7077 and a Windows Vista SP1 client on my Hyper-V server. Because I am primarily interested in what’s happening in an enterprise environment, both clients were joined to a domain.