Home windows 11 nonetheless runs dinosaur providers like Fax at boot — right here's what it is best to disable

Windows 11 comes with dozens of background services that start automatically when you turn on your PC. Most are essential, handling networking, audio, and security. But a few are relics from a different era of computing, services like Fax and Distributed Link Tracking that made sense in the Windows 2000 days but serve no purpose on a modern personal computer. After I finally disabled some of these Windows services, I realized most of them had been quietly running for years without doing anything useful for me.