Why are "unnecessary" services and processes in Windows?

Question

System administration

There are a lot of articles on the Internet like "There are a lot of services and processes in your Windows that you don't need, but we'll tell you how to disable them, and your computer will fly!".
If there really are services and processes that are enabled by default and not needed by most users, then why did Microsoft enable them by default?

Answer 1

Because Windows wants to provide for all possible cases and tries to include "everything and more" in case you suddenly want to use it. All of them can be divided into roughly three broad categories
- Hardware and/or protocol support services - and it does not matter at all that you do not and never will have devices using Bonjour, for example. As a rule, if you know exactly what a given service supports, you can disable
- Service Services (this is the largest group). This includes the actual services such as Server or Workstation, all sorts of help centers, file downloads (BITS), etc. If you don’t know exactly what she’s doing, it’s better not to touch it!
- All sorts of monitors, statistics services and other components of the Big American Brother :) You can find hundreds of articles on how to turn them off. Worth it or not - decide for yourself :)

Answer 2

Then, after such articles, you wonder why the user does not print the printer, bluetooth and other peripherals do not work.
Before you turn off something, you need to understand what you are turning off.

Answer 3

Because Microsoft needs them, such as Update Services and Security Center. Plus, Shinda is designed for housewives who need to provide for all possible situations and maximum simplicity. So, I disable the print service, because. I don't have a printer, but the housewife, if she disables this service, will encounter unforeseen difficulties when trying to print something, and she will have to call the technician Vasya.

Answer 4

I don't understand either.
It's like on cars.
Why the hell do car factories put rear-view mirrors by default? In them, anyway, the majority of the people do not look when rebuilding.

Answer 5

In a nutshell, what does it have to do with both figuratively and really - "fee for universality"

Answer 6

I think the last thing the melkosoftovtsev worries about is that your resources are being spent suboptimally.
While the money is flowing, to put it mildly, they do not care about you (both personally and as a company).
Which build was tested (with most of the included services) and this one was delivered to you.