SMART

SMART is a tool that helps you disable some Windows services, so you can configure the operating system behavior according to your preferences.

The program doesn't need to be installed, so your Windows registry entries remain intact. Since it is a portable product, you can place it on an external device and run the executable file directly from there.

The user interface of SMART is clean and easy to use. A list of all system applications is automatically loaded. For example, you can disable the Windows secondary logon, Volume Shadow Copy or Windows Time.

Before making any changes, you can enable the tool to create a system restore point. In the interface you can view the display name, service name, current status (running, stopped) and startup type (manual, automatic, disabled) of each application.

You can perform safe, moderate, advanced or custom tweaks (by saving the current list as custom), while starting or stopping a specific Windows service. You can disable a program to run automatically at computer startup, as well as restore all settings to default.

The software takes several seconds to restore settings to default and during this time it freezes. You do not have the option to create more than one user-defined profiles, but SMART takes up a moderate amount of system resources and is simple to use by both novices and experts.