What Windows Services and Tasks Do You Disable?

For you Windoze tweakers out there, what services and scheduled tasks do you commonly turn off or completely remove? I've seen just a few referenced here so far...

• Disable WinSAT

• Disable Program Compatibility Assistant

• Disable Windows Defender

• Don't Install Network Manager that comes with the Qualcomm Killer LAN Ethernet Driver

• Disable 3D Vision Controller Driver when installing the nVIDIA Driver unless you have a 3D screen

• Disable streaming in GeForce Experience

Which of these do you choose NOT to disable? What are your favorites to kill off?

 

For Killer Drivers, go to the device manager then click on the gigabit eth device / Wifi and install INF manually, download them from below and make sure you run the killer cleaner first.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=evmkt7sg3rrosbgdc9n3vrtq45&topic=174229.0

Using the same Inf drivers here

 

What's the difference between doing that and using Dell's driver package, but choosing the option to extract (NOT INSTALL), then using the device manager to manually install by browsing to the location that you extracted the Dell driver package?

And what is the cleaner? What's it do? Where can I get it?

Are the links in that other forum better to use compared to Dell's drivers for this? I used a newer Dell-packaged version than is listed for my system (on advice by @Ferris23) : 8.1.0.23

 

Tipp that is exactly what I do. I download all the files and extract them with 7zip into folders specific for that type of file on a USB. I figure installing the drivers via Device Manager, I'm stopping dell from installing unnecessary programs.

 

Killer cleaner can be downloaded from Qualcomm site and the INFs are those which all things are needed for a hardware to function (fundamentals), So this doesn't hurt at all. I'm using those INF files on my machine since day 1.

So first please have a look here -- > http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...all-order-guide-for-alienware-systems.556721/ (For win7)
Follow the steps and find hte drivers for yourself. And for the Dell Drivers, Dell doesn't update stuff properly. Better we update them ourselves which are outdated stuff...

The page that must be on your sticky -> http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...hreads-and-posts-see-post-1-for-index.651352/

 

http://www.overclock.net/t/1433882/...ide-for-modern-pc-hardware-2013-r0ach-edition

I also only install graphics driver and physx, nothing else from nvidia.

 

Actually, I saw a reference to it last week and someone was saying that the Qualcomm site was down or didn't have stuff like that for download any more. I searched the web for the cleaner, information on what it was and how to download it, but I came up with sparse results. That's why I was asking you.

Well, the first post in your link is for drivers from Nov 2013 so I would guess the link for Dell's newest version (8.1.0.23) is better to use. But there is a second post from January 2015 in your link, so which is newest I don't know. There is no version info in the posts you linked which I find odd.

Good link, thanks!!!!!

 

Excellent link!! But it didn't go into details on how to install the graphics driver and physx. Care to elaborate or provide other links? What package do you start with? Dell's or one straight from nVIDIA? Do you modify the .inf file for better performance per @Mr. Fox ? Do you use newest driver or more conservative older one?

 

I use the newest version, but search around for a modded one that allows overclocking as the current official one does not: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/no-more-overclocking-on-nvidia-mobile-gpus.771169/

I use Revo uninstaller on Windows 7. Along with DDU http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/ .

1. Start Revo and uninstall nVidia graphics driver, select advanced scan and delete everything. If one or more nVidia product is present, uninstall that and delete everything that Revo scanned too.
2. Restart windows in safe mode. After booting, use DDU and select nVidia. Proceed to clean.
3. After restarting into normal boot. Doubleclick the installer for new driver.
4. Click custom setting. Click clean install and deselect anything that you don't need. I recommend you only install the core graphics driver and PhysX. Along with 3D if your screen supports it. Deselect everything else.


That's about it.

 

Anything that doesn't serve an individual user's needs for functionality can be disabled. If you don't use it and need it, disable it or remove it.

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Well, if you are having the new Alienware 13, I can't help much as I don't have that new machine, but one more thing IF you can manage to extract the .exe, then just point out the device manager manual installer to that folder where you had the drivers extracted (from the exe) that would only install the infs.. I did this trick with my Realtek Drivers from the realtek site as the dell ones were a bit outdated.

Inf mod is required only for the non oem supported GPU upgrades making the driver installation support. Though 880M users getting benefits with that desktop mod.
Try at this thread for more info on the desktop modded Drivers by Mr. Fox ---> http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...od-for-780m-880m-and-980m-mobile-gpus.767644/

Better don't up the voltages much as the newer machines have less cooling potential over the older ones plus they are soldered, so no vBIOS mods atm all the Maxwell users are using the old 344.75 or 344.91 drivers for max results with OC support as the new drivers are not going well though you would learn much about the newer drivers over the last pages at the thread that mobius quoted...

 

I have a 18 not 13, but the driver is the same, as noted by @Ferris23 elsewhere. I can confirm it works fine. My questions you quoted were more about (1) no version info given on those links, so don't know if the last one is newer than I provided above. And (2) what is the cleaner, what's it do, and where can we get it?

My understanding was that the inf mod is (also) applicable for users who have stock machines, who install the newest nVIDIA driver (not one from Dell), and who want (slightly) improved performance from their driver/GPU setup.

 

Killer Cleaner helps to remove all killer drivers for a clean installation & I don't know about the AW13 drivers you had linked. To be simple I just don't want that Killer NW manager on my machine the INF works 100% fine over here since the day I got my machine, If you go thtough the thread you will understand why people using those INF only package.

& for the Modded driver, Sorry I can't help you on that as - your machine config is unknown though its an AW18, People reported an increase in performance but I can't confirm. Better ask in that thread...
One thing im sure of that 344.75 / 344.91 are the best drivers for 900M series and Kepler GPUs aswell.

EDIT : http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/killer-wireless-cleaner-tool.771243/