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It's up to you to decide what is necessary for your computer but you can find plenty of suggestions on the web. Do a google search on turning off windows services DAW or variations on those words and you'll find out a lot of stuff. A good place to start would be to look at the process list and see what's using lots of memory and/or CPU time. Do a google search on the process names (e.g. DKserv.exe) and you'll find explanations of what the process is about. Processes may or may not be associated with a service or they may be something in your startup menu. The more you can learn about what your computer is actually doing moment to moment the better you will be able to decide what you *want* it to be doing.