Remove unused services and drivers for Windows

Programs under test and remove old hardware leave traces in our PC often can not be removed easily. Let's see how to clean.

It happens very often to try programs that install drivers and services that once uninstalled the software that created them, are not completely removed. Same thing happens with hardware mounted for testing.

All this can cause some instability of the system, a configuration register that contains useless information, and if some old service is active, a waste of RAM.

Thanks to Total Service and Driver Control (TSDC will call in the rest of the article) you can delete these unnecessary services and drivers.

Please note that The program can also delete the registry keys of drivers and services currently used by the operating system, so before you remove anything think again and ask for confirmation in MegaForum if you have any doubts.

Removing the wrong thing could also cause serious problems to your operating system.

The program requires no installation, it works from Windows 2000 to Windows 7, and can be downloaded from this address. Softpedia secure downloads Choose the voice as the first link refers to the official website of the program that seems to be no longer available.

Once you start the control rather long and eventually you have to press Ok to continue.

Compare the list of all Windows services with their current state: if they start with R are active, with S instead are stuck.

Clicking on Details will give you more information about the files related to the service we have chosen.

In the screen of the program by clicking on Drivers and Services we move between the two categories that we can clean up with TSDC.

Even here with Details we can go and see who is involved in this driver.

Given the temp folder where the file was surely it was some program I have tried.

As already mentioned, TSDC has no qualms about removing the network card driver on your computer, the antivirus services, or G Data currently active.

The removal of one of these components has resulted in the reinstallation of G Data Antivirus and uninstall the network card for it to reconfigure the computer is restarted.

After each change you must restart the computer to activate your changes.

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