Sony TZ Disabled Services/Startup

Hello All, Ive followed all the general guides on disabling windows services to have less processes running but still have between 63-65 running at any given time on the TZ. Does anyone have a TZ specific guide on what services to disable to get it down even lower?

Thanks for any help!

 

Not if you want all the functionality of Vista and the Wireless Utilities, Display Utilties, Fingerprint Reader, Bluetooth, Sidebar, etc. There are several guides on the internet for optimizing Vista, and what each service does so you can decide what you need and what to disable. I've not had very good luck choosing what to disable and have everything I want to work still work. I have 80 processes running with IE open on my TZ180.

 

If you're using Vista, you're best off doing a new clean installation (not a semi) of the operating system. That will start you off at around 35-38 processes running in the background. From there, you can pick and choose what you want from the driver site of your model. I believe I only had under 50 processes running when I had all the main Sony drivers installed and all the programs I needed. About 5 or so processes were just from updating the Intel graphics driver (see Windows Update) to have some sort of tray icon functionality. Trial and error.

I prefer leaving some of those out, so I actually only have 39 processes running when there are no applications present currently on my TZ. The only Sony process I have had to manually disable is ISBUtility. 3 of those 39 processes are actually from my Anti virus application, so I think that's pretty good considering a fresh install starts you off at around that range... I have tried disabling processes using blackviper's suggested tables -- not the bare bones version, but tweaked and the other one that escapes my mind at the moment -- and I recall seeing a reduction of maybe 1-2 processes.

services.msc
msconfig
blackviper.com

I hated how I had 89 processes running in the background when I first turned on the TZ... Good luck in your quest. I know I have spent a lot of time myself figuring out what applications produce the least amount of processes running in the background, so this is a subject I know all too well about.

 

Really? I'm always in the 80's. wow. But you know., most processes arn't running and at least on my system, about 20-30 of them are under a 2mb easy. I would say youre loosing about 10-20mb of memory and not that much in resources. As long as you watch what Sony is installing. Seriously, if you have 2+GB of ram, 20mb isnt much. And as 80% of the arent doing anything. I wouldnt worry about getting rid of everything. Just watch what is being used and see if those programs are needed. If not, then uninstall it.