

For example, if you don’t use a Web server, such as SharePoint server, that allows you to manage your documents or if you are not using Microsoft’s cloud-based storage called OneDrive then you may want to disable Office Document Cache. If you don’t have a need for the Office Document Cache and the Upload Center it is yet another service running to consume your computer resources and you may want to disable it. This feature can be useful if you are using Microsoft’s OneDrive or SharePoint server because if you lose the connection to your server, Office will cache your files locally and when the connection is restored your files will be automatically uploaded to the server. The Upload Center uses Office Document Cache. The newer versions of Microsoft Office include an Upload Center which allows you to see the state of the files that you are uploading to a server. I went on to describe all the services that are necessary in detail. In that article I mentioned that there are almost 80 services that are running on an average Windows XP computer but in some cases there are only about 20 services that are necessary. In October 2007 I wrote an article called Tweaking Windows XP Services. While most of them are necessary for the operating system to function, there are several that can be disabled safely without impacting the operating system.

There are lots of services and tasks running on a Windows operating system.
