How To Disable Services In Windows 7
There are several unnecessary services that run in the background and take enough amount of system resources.
A service is an application type that runs in the system background without a user interface. Services provide core operating system features, such as web serving, event logging, file serving, printing, cryptography, and error reporting.
Many of time, you might want to disable one or more services to free up some system resources. For example, you can safely disable Print Spooler service if your system is not connected to a printer. Not to mention that disabling unnecessary services will speedup your Windows as well.
So, here is how to disable a service in Windows 7:
1. Type services.msc in Start menu search box and hit enter to open Services window.
2. Once the Services windows is opened, locate the service that you want to disable.
3. Double-click on the particular service to open Properties.
4. Under the General tab, change Startup type of the service to Disabled to disable the particular service and then click Apply button to save the change.
5. You are done!
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Weather Center is an awesome application to view the current weather conditions in a jiffy. The tool displays the current temperature in the system tray area and is fully customizable.
Upon running the tool for the first time, you will be given an opportunity to to setup the tool by entering your current location. Once done, you can view the current temperature in system tray area and also can view addition information such as dew point, sun rise time, sun set time, humidity and more by opening Weather Center window.
Key features:
- Up-to-date weather information
- Weather alert options
- Weather data format
Rafael Rivera and Zheng have released a handy application for Windows 7 called Geosense, a Windows Sensor, that provides the Location and Sensors platform in Windows 7 with accurate and reasonably ubiquitous positioning information without requiring or the assistance of GPS hardware, enabling more practical location-based applications and scenarios on Windows 7.
Geosense is available for both x86 & x64 versions of Windows 7. You can download the setup file from the link mentioned below. More information is available at the Geosense download page.