I have an old and low-performance laptop. It was working very slow and
using too much CPU. I decided to turn off (disable) unnecessary services
to give it a boost. And I did so; now my system works much faster. The
complete and exact list of disabled services are listed below.
Application Management
Base Filtering Engine
----IPsec Policy Agent
----IKE and AuthIP IPsec Keying Modules
Bonjour Service
Cryptographic Services
Desktop Window Manager Session Manager
Diagnostic Policy Service
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Extensible Authentication Protocol
----WLAN AutoConfig
Function Discovery Provider Host
----HomeGroup Provider
Function Discovery Resource Publication
Human Interface Device Access
Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology
IP Helper
Network Connections
Network List Service
Network Location Awareness
Offline Files
Peer Name Resolution Protocol
----Peer Networking Grouping
Peer Networking Identity Manager
Program Compatibility Assistant Service
Protected Storage
RtVOsdService Installer
Sandboxie Service
Security Center
Server
Shell Hardware Detection
SQL Server VSS Writer
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Themes
WebClient
Windows Font Cache Service
Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service
Windows Presentation Foundation Font Cache 3.0.0.0
(Note: The indented service names are dependent to the preceding ones in the list.)
I have been using my system for one or two months with those services
disabled without any problem. Today, I tried to print an MS Word
document into a PNG file. But I saw that no printers are listed. I
clicked on the "Add Printer..." button and got this error message:
[File in the directory]
The Active Directory Domain Services is currently unavailable.
The problem is definitely due to those disabled services. I'm not using this laptop very much and I didn't make any change on the system other than disabling the services. It looks like I
disabled a critical service among all those unnecessary ones. I really
don't want to re-enable all those services one-by-one and try restart
the system after each one. Can you please tell me absence of which service is
causing this problem?
Windows Version: 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
Office Version: Professional Plus 2013
PDFCreator Version: 1.7.3