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Disable Unneeded Services (Windows)

Use the Services window to disable unnecessary services.

Follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the Administrative Tools window.
  2. Double-click Services.

    The Services window opens.

  3. Right-click the following services and select Manual or Disabled.

    Do not select Stop or the services will start again when the server is rebooted.

  • Application Layer Gateway Service
  • Application Management
  • Certificate Propagation
  • Distributed Link Tracking Client
  • Distributed Transaction Coordinator
  • DNS Client
  • Function Discovery Resource Publication
  • Human Interface Device Access
  • IP Helper
  • Link-Layer Topology Discovery Manager
  • Microsoft Iscsi Initiator Service
  • Multimedia Class Scheduler
  • Netlogon
  • Network List Service
  • Network Location Awareness
  • Portable Device Enumerator Service
  • Print Spooler
  • Remote Access Auto Connection Manager
  • Remote Access Connection Manager
  • Remote Registry
  • Resultant Set of Policy Provider
  • Secondary Logon
  • Smart Card
  • Smart Card Removal Policy
  • Special Administration Console Helper
  • SSDP Discovery
  • Tablet PC Input Service
  • Telephony
  • Volume Shadow Copy
  • Windows Audio
  • Windows Audio Endpoint Builder
  • Windows CardSpace
  • Windows Color System
  • WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service
  • WMI Performance Adapter

 

Prevent False Positive Events (Windows)

Create an empty key to prevent the SNMP service from logging false positive events.

Follow these steps:

  1. Open a command prompt window.
  2. Run the following command: 
    reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SNMP\Parameters\TrapConfiguration