Windows 10: What Happens If Device Installation Service Is Disabled?

TacticArea · Mar 23, 2025 at 8:22 AM

Hello! What exactly happens if the computer disables the following service: Device Installation Service So if we disable it and restart the system, does it not detect the disk and constantly give BSOD? Or can the system see this as important and open the Device Installation Service?

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exodusprime1337 · Mar 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM

windows xp installation and dual core am

could someone please list the steps they follow to install windows with a dual core processor and windows xp service pack to. I'm reletively new to amd dual core and i feel i'm missing a step. All help will be appreciated. thanx

Deepika Gowda · Mar 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM

Can't disable playback devices

Hi,

Do not worry we will help you with this issue.

Let us know the make and model of your computer and any prior changes to the operating system that might have resulted in this issue.

Try few of the troubleshooting steps below and check if it helps.

Step 1: Stop the Windows Audio service.

Press Windows Key + R on the keyboard and type
services.msc, Services window gets opened.

Search for Windows Audio service, right click on it and click on
Stop.

Restart the computer.

Step 2: Start the service and set it to automatic:

Press Windows Key + R on the keyboard and type
services.msc, Services window gets opened.

Search for Windows Audio service, right click on it and click on
Properties.

Start the service, set
Startup type to Automatic.

Step 3: I suggest you to check if there are any drivers with yellow exclamatory mark in the Device Manager.

Press Windows + X from the keyboard, click on
Device Manager.

Right click on the detected driver, click on Properties
and check the device status.

Also, try to Update the driver software under
Driver tab.

Hope it helps. Reply to the post with accessing the playback devices on your computer for further assistance.

Thank you.

Sonya · Mar 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM

Suggestions on services to disable?

That sounds impossible.. and you have a desktop, so presumably no Wifi. Presumably you pulled your ethernet connection from your PC, which should surely be enough.

Why not keep your project files in an encrypted area? Disconnect while working on them, close access to that area and carry on. The only thing someone could copy usefully then would be any temporary files. So you could run Ccleaner before reconnecting.

E.g. Truecrypt or its successors.

Please beware that using Spybot Anti-Beacon and similar can give rise to puzzling
'Some settings are managed by your organisation' in red in various places in Settings, and some things being disabled.

That is aimed at supposed MS spying- things reporting to MS. So would not be likely to stop other nefarious activities.
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Sorry yes physically unplugged, ethernet cable is nowhere near pc anymore, has never had a wifi connection. Happens even before I plug in ethernet after a clean install. Starts with one of the many svchosts. Just a few screenshots of this happening.

Oh even posted a short video of this happening on youtube last year. Currently have not seen anything yet after disabling all that I have, including disabling the use of UDP for remote connections in Group Policy, in autoruns I also unchecked that box for "webplatform customizations" and changed the registry entries for SymlinkLocaltoRemote data value to 0 (also did this for the SymlinkRemotetoLocal as well).