FAX — As its name suggests, this is a service needed only if you want to send and receive faxes. If you’re not going to use, which may be the case for most people, disable it.
AllJoyn Router Service — This is a service that lets you connect Windows to the Internet of Things and communicate with devices such as smart TVs, refrigerators, light bulbs, thermostats, etc. If you’re not using these or don’t connect Windows to them, go ahead and turn it off.
Secondary logon — This service lets you log on to a standard account with admin privileges and run specific applications. It is triggered to start when a program is set to ‘Run as different user’ from the extended context menu. But if you are the sole user of your PC, then go ahead and disable this.
Connected User Experiences and Telemetry — If you’re concerned with privacy and don’t want to send usage data to Microsoft for analysis, then this service is one to go. Though some would say that such assessment of data is important to improve Windows on the whole, disabling it doesn’t affect normal usage and, frankly, one less data bundle wouldn’t bring the house down.
Program Compatibility Assistant Service — Unless you’re still using legacy software on your Windows 11 PC, you can easily turn off this service. This service lets you detect software incompatibility issues for old games and software. But if you’re using programs and apps built for Windows 10 or 11, go ahead and disable it.
Device Management Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Push message Routing Service — This service is another service that helps to collect and send user data to Microsoft. Strengthen your privacy by disabling it, it is recommended that you do so.
Windows Mobile Hotspot Service — As the name suggests, this service is needed if you’re sharing your mobile’s internet connection with your PC. But if you don’t remember the last time you connected to a mobile hotspot service, you may look to disable it entirely.
Remote Desktop Configuration and Remote Desktop Services — These two services let you connect to other PCs in the vicinity. If you don’t need remote connectivity, disable these two services.
Remote Registry — This service lets any user access and modify the Windows registry. It is highly recommended that you disable this service for security purposes. Your ability to edit the registry locally (or as admin) won’t be affected.
Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service — As the name tells, this service facilitates touch keyboard and handwriting input for touch-enabled screens. So unless you have one of those, go ahead and disable it.
Windows Insider Service — Disable this service only if you’re not in the Windows Insider program. Currently, as Windows 11 is only available through it, you shouldn’t disable it. But if you’re on the final and stable version of Windows and are not testing upcoming features, disabling it shouldn’t be a problem.
Windows Image Acquisition — This service is important for people who connect scanners and digital cameras to their PC. But if you don’t have one of those, or are never planning on getting one, disable it by all means.
Windows Connect Now — This service is mainly meant for laptops and computers that need to connect to wireless networks and devices (camera, printers, and other PCs). But if you have a desktop setup without a wireless card, you won’t need this service and can disable it safely.
Windows Defender — This may raise some eyebrows, but we’re only recommending turning this off only and only if you have an antivirus that’s protecting your system. If that’s the case, Windows Defender would virtually be inactive anyway, as the third-party antivirus would act as your primary threat protection. Disabling Windows Defender at that point would help you free up valuable resources, without compromising the security of your device.
Downloaded Maps Manager — Do you use Bing Maps? Chances are that most of you rely on Google Maps built within your favorite browser and can’t care for Bing Maps. So find this unnecessary service and make sure that it’s disabled.
Parental Control — Again, the name says it all – this service allows parents to put restrictions on what their kids are accessing on the internet. But, as with many things brought with Vista, this is obsolete if you know how to filter content for your kids on the browser itself. Also, if you don’t have any kids around, that’s an obvious reason to keep this service disabled.
Xbox Services — Do you use the Xbox app to play games? If not, then you don’t need any of the Xbox services. These include the ‘Xbox Accessory Management Service’, ‘Xbox Live Auth Manager’, ‘Xbox Live Game Save’, and ‘Xbox Live Networking Service’. These won’t affect your daily use unless you do use the Xbox app on your PC. In that case, don’t touch these.
Security Center — This is another one of those services that only advanced users should turn off. The functionalities of this service are crucial – it scans the system for issues and keeps you posted about the system’s health, including pending updates, whether or not an antivirus is installed, UAC notifications, and other such messages you receive in the system tray. If you know how to check for these issues on your own, you can disable the service without any problems. If, however, you’re not sure how to check your system’s health, leave this one alone.
Print Spooler — Connected to the printer in the past few months? If not, then this service is useless to you. Go ahead and disable it if you’re not planning on using a printer anytime soon.
Portable Device Enumerator Service — This service is needed for making group policy changes for removable drives and to synchronize content for applications like Windows Media Player and Image Import Wizard on the removable drive. If these don’t mean anything to you, go ahead and disable it. Rest assured, it won’t affect your regular thumb drive use.
Retail Demo Service — Finally, this service is only meant for vendors and retailers who have to showcase the PC and Windows features for customers. Of course, a regular user would never need to use such a service, and so can disable it without any consequences.
Complete article here
jwoegerbauer said:
FAX — As its name suggests, this is a service needed only if you want to send and receive faxes. If you’re not going to use, which may be the case for most people, disable it.
AllJoyn Router Service — This is a service that lets you connect Windows to the Internet of Things and communicate with devices such as smart TVs, refrigerators, light bulbs, thermostats, etc. If you’re not using these or don’t connect Windows to them, go ahead and turn it off.
Secondary logon — This service lets you log on to a standard account with admin privileges and run specific applications. It is triggered to start when a program is set to ‘Run as different user’ from the extended context menu. But if you are the sole user of your PC, then go ahead and disable this.
Connected User Experiences and Telemetry — If you’re concerned with privacy and don’t want to send usage data to Microsoft for analysis, then this service is one to go. Though some would say that such assessment of data is important to improve Windows on the whole, disabling it doesn’t affect normal usage and, frankly, one less data bundle wouldn’t bring the house down.
Program Compatibility Assistant Service — Unless you’re still using legacy software on your Windows 11 PC, you can easily turn off this service. This service lets you detect software incompatibility issues for old games and software. But if you’re using programs and apps built for Windows 10 or 11, go ahead and disable it.
Device Management Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Push message Routing Service — This service is another service that helps to collect and send user data to Microsoft. Strengthen your privacy by disabling it, it is recommended that you do so.
Windows Mobile Hotspot Service — As the name suggests, this service is needed if you’re sharing your mobile’s internet connection with your PC. But if you don’t remember the last time you connected to a mobile hotspot service, you may look to disable it entirely.
Remote Desktop Configuration and Remote Desktop Services — These two services let you connect to other PCs in the vicinity. If you don’t need remote connectivity, disable these two services.
Remote Registry — This service lets any user access and modify the Windows registry. It is highly recommended that you disable this service for security purposes. Your ability to edit the registry locally (or as admin) won’t be affected.
Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service — As the name tells, this service facilitates touch keyboard and handwriting input for touch-enabled screens. So unless you have one of those, go ahead and disable it.
Windows Insider Service — Disable this service only if you’re not in the Windows Insider program. Currently, as Windows 11 is only available through it, you shouldn’t disable it. But if you’re on the final and stable version of Windows and are not testing upcoming features, disabling it shouldn’t be a problem.
Windows Image Acquisition — This service is important for people who connect scanners and digital cameras to their PC. But if you don’t have one of those, or are never planning on getting one, disable it by all means.
Windows Connect Now — This service is mainly meant for laptops and computers that need to connect to wireless networks and devices (camera, printers, and other PCs). But if you have a desktop setup without a wireless card, you won’t need this service and can disable it safely.
Windows Defender — This may raise some eyebrows, but we’re only recommending turning this off only and only if you have an antivirus that’s protecting your system. If that’s the case, Windows Defender would virtually be inactive anyway, as the third-party antivirus would act as your primary threat protection. Disabling Windows Defender at that point would help you free up valuable resources, without compromising the security of your device.
Downloaded Maps Manager — Do you use Bing Maps? Chances are that most of you rely on Google Maps built within your favorite browser and can’t care for Bing Maps. So find this unnecessary service and make sure that it’s disabled.
Parental Control — Again, the name says it all – this service allows parents to put restrictions on what their kids are accessing on the internet. But, as with many things brought with Vista, this is obsolete if you know how to filter content for your kids on the browser itself. Also, if you don’t have any kids around, that’s an obvious reason to keep this service disabled.
Xbox Services — Do you use the Xbox app to play games? If not, then you don’t need any of the Xbox services. These include the ‘Xbox Accessory Management Service’, ‘Xbox Live Auth Manager’, ‘Xbox Live Game Save’, and ‘Xbox Live Networking Service’. These won’t affect your daily use unless you do use the Xbox app on your PC. In that case, don’t touch these.
Security Center — This is another one of those services that only advanced users should turn off. The functionalities of this service are crucial – it scans the system for issues and keeps you posted about the system’s health, including pending updates, whether or not an antivirus is installed, UAC notifications, and other such messages you receive in the system tray. If you know how to check for these issues on your own, you can disable the service without any problems. If, however, you’re not sure how to check your system’s health, leave this one alone.
Print Spooler — Connected to the printer in the past few months? If not, then this service is useless to you. Go ahead and disable it if you’re not planning on using a printer anytime soon.
Portable Device Enumerator Service — This service is needed for making group policy changes for removable drives and to synchronize content for applications like Windows Media Player and Image Import Wizard on the removable drive. If these don’t mean anything to you, go ahead and disable it. Rest assured, it won’t affect your regular thumb drive use.
Retail Demo Service — Finally, this service is only meant for vendors and retailers who have to showcase the PC and Windows features for customers. Of course, a regular user would never need to use such a service, and so can disable it without any consequences.
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You can also use Black Viper's recommendations as well as the script even thought it pertains to Windows 10.
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Dpoes anyone know of any case studies or example applications which use a PDA with GPRS connection to a server database?
I have a project to to this, and need ideas. Not limited to the XDA, may also look at palm but need to find a good reason to do so :shock:
Ta,
Zx10rider
Avantgo is the first obvious choice.
Check out their various wireless sync options.
Also check out:
imov (instant message client)
PpcNews (news client)
Pocket Feed (RSS/RDF news aggregator)
Pocket Blog (extends your weblog to any Pocket PC device)
Try DA-Systems & select info on their Nexus product.
This is a field service tool for couriers, providing job data out, updates, courier status update inc signature capture, SatNav (TomTom), GPS reporting over GPRS etc. All reports back & is integrated with the DA-Systems back office product, allowing the office to know the exact current position and current job status of all their couriers.
Mobile TTDS
Check out our CAB dispatch system at:
http://www.digstud.se/ttds/mttds.asp
/Patrik
Hi All
my new employer has a BYOD policy but insists on using Airwatch MDM to access any of the tools I need (email, files, calendar).
I have obvious concerns over giving work access to my personal information on my phone. So .... can I use an additional profile on my phone to segregate my personal data from my work data.
i.e. switch to a "work profile" when I need to access my work tools via MDM.
The real question here is do guest and additional profiles on android keep your personal (main account) details completely seperate from Airwatch.
Thanks in advance.
That depends on the device and set-up of Airwatch - in the BYOD environment most companies use the container which separates enterprise apps (emails and etc) from your stuff. The tricky part is the location services, but most BYOD don't use or enable this - if they did they'd have to tell you and it will be in the T&C's
The polices are set out on AW at the start, I you have a vision that MDM admins sit there looking at you internet history then your sadly wrong, you cant do this on any MDM yet.
I just checked and you can't even see the apps you've installed.
Depending on the enrollment (agentless or not) you can absolutely see installed apps. Regarding seperated work/private they should be able to use Knox if Samsung devices is used.
I do not know if I am asking in the correct place, or the correct way. I am not a developer and so far attempts to use google to find the answer to my question has been in the form of developer answers which are useless to me since I am not writing a program. I am looking for one.
I am trying to build myself a database. On my desktop I can use Open Office Base to do this, but the database is only accessible on my desktop.
I have tried Momento database app and its desktop counterpart, but its limited to 3 tables only unless I buy a monthly subscription and it relys on an external web service to function.
I have looked at the Cellica program for syncing database, but it does not support the Open Office Base format, and Open Office can not export to MS Access format.
What I am looking for is the best free database program for my desktop which has an android app, which I can use to sync my database between my android tablet and my desktop over wi-fy when I'm at home.
If its good enough I may even consider a paid program, as long as there is no subscription fee.
I need to run an app in Genymotion that is used for data entry and upload of the entered data into 3rd party sites. The logins to 3rd party sites are stored in this application (probably encrypted). The application will store multiple logins for my different customers of who need to have the data uploaded into the 3rd party sites. The data into the app will then be entered by other people to whom I outsource the data entry.
So I created Genymotion appliance, installed the app and in this application I entered logins for sites such as ebay. I am looking for suggestions on what can I do to secure the appliance to prevent the data being copied out from it.
I want to prevent the person to whom I outsource data entry to be able to install and load 3rd party other apps, modify system settings, install other apps, copy the system directory, copy the login and password information saved by the application.
Let's assume the worst possible case here when application is well written but the passwords mentioned above (for the ecommerce sites like ebay) is saved in plain text in this application in the internal application directory. What I know about the application is it doesn't support access to SD Card, only can read and write data to the internal memory.
What can I do in Gennymotion to improve the security of my appliance. Genymotion virtual machines are rooted. So I looked at following suggestions:
1. Setup restricted user on Android
2. Set restriction for the restricted user to only be able to use the one application. Disable anything else (including disabled browser, email, youtube etc..)
3. Try to get the restricted user loading on boot of Android. When Android restarts, however, it doesn't allow choice to login into the restricted user or the admin user, sort of like a Windows or MacOS login menu. To get the appliance to always start with restricted user by default, I need to add a script and the scripted will need to start using Tasker or MacroDroid.
However, how do I prevent the user from installing 3rd party apps? Is it good enough to disable all user apps (except that one used for data entry) from the restricted user? Is there any other way the user could abuse the access to the virtual appliance and load something there? Are there any system android apps I need to disable for the restricted user to prevent the user to be able to do anything bad with it?
The application used for data entry can not download any application or data, however, I believe it does use the webview because it loads sites like ebay and fills the forms on those sites. It only interacts with select websites only like Ebay to enter data into Ebay forms..
Is there anything I can do to secure Genymotion appliance any other than what I already mentioned. I would like to send the link to the Genymotion SaaS Android to people who will do data entry for me into Ebay and other sites. So I need to make sure the virtual appliance is secured as much as possible from tinkering with it. I need to make sure somebody doesn't get hand on the stored login details.
Just to clarify for the login credentials:
I am not sure how the user credentials are stored and I will find it out, however, for now, I go from the worst case scenario when the credentials are stored in plain text in the app settings. The user name and password is stored in the application with exception for Ebay because the many other sites do not have API key or any webservices interface, so the application would access those sites simply via a webview, and when it goes to login there it will do that by filling in the login information on the login form (simulates keystrokes). The user name and password is entered into the login form for the site. That's why the login info is stored in the application itself.
This question is not about how to secure the specific application I will be using, but how to secure the actual whole Android appliance from tinkering with.
I am aware I will the risks here, just want to do as much due diligence as I can.
Sources for Genymotion restricted user..
How to set restricted user as default user on reboot?
We would like to have an already added restricted user account be the default when we restart our Samsung SM-T580 tablets. At current we have 2 accounts installed, Admin and User The User is a use...
android.stackexchange.com
Root access - Device image User Guide
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Done some digging so this cannot be done. Neither Genymobile or Appetize or other online Android emulators can offer fine-tuning in terms of user access. The closest is Genymobile because at least allows adding and removing access of users to individual appliances. That is however not resolving the issue with Android and in particular rooted Android, since all online emulators run rooted Android and I am not sure how that is secured against potentially malicious actors who receive access link.
The only easy way to solve it, kind of in a mickey-mousy way is to install Kiosk mode application. That kiosk app will run at every boot and it only shows the specific application. There is always risk of course the malicious user would do something to crash the application and the Kiosk app, but if the application is not a web browser or email client or similar it should be relatively safe.
There are plenty of Kiosk mode apps for Android but none of them is free (don't try to look, no chance to find one), the cheapest cost about 7 USD one-time purchase, the more expensive ones cost 20 per month per device or more and come with remote control etc... Not cheap but kiosk mode apps are almost exlusively used by businesses so that's why there is lack of free apps.
Anyhow I believe this is the closest as I could get to deal with this.
I would like to use an android as a Windows 10 PC terminal. I'm using a Samsung Fold3 running Android 12 if it matters. It seems like a fairly simple process. Enable Remote Desktop on the Windows 10 PC. Make sure the PC's firewall (and virus protection software) passes Remote Desktop access. Install Remote Desktop Client on the Android and setup the connection to the PC.
The Remote Desktop Client sees the PC, fills in the active user account and requests the user password. I can enter the password but the android does not respond to the "Continue" button and all I can do is cancel out of it. I can also try to edit the PC configuration to setup a user account so that a password does not need to be entered each time but in this case the save button is unresponsive whether or not a password is entered.
This same thing happens whether I select the PC found on the local wifi or I enter the PC's IP address manually (with or without the 3389 port number).
Can anyone give me a clue as to what I'm doing wrong or how to proceed?
Sorry. User error. I was doing something stupid.
Never mind.
These remote desktop options allows you to access Windows from Android easily with just one click.https://www.anyviewer.com/how-to/remote-control-windows-10-from-android-0427.html
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These remote desktop options allows you to access Windows from Android easily with just one click.https://www.anyviewer.com/how-to/remote-control-windows-10-from-android-0427.html
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Thanks for the link.
My initial problem was just a usage error getting Microsoft Remote Desktop Client to work when on the same network. I fixed that issue and am able to use it to control my PC from an android as long as I'm on the same local network which is useful but I would also like to be able to do it from anywhere on the internet.
Your link led to a discussion of this issue with the possibility of using port forwarding or a VPN to allow access to my PC from an external network with varying degrees of complexity and hacking potential.
The link also discussed using chrome and a google account to access my PC remotely. This is unacceptable because I won't use chrome and have uninstalled it from all my android devices plus although I do have a Google account, I only use it to explicitly download apps from the store and otherwise disable Google Play Services and the Google Play Store and will not use any app that requires Google Play Services to function. So this option is out.
The final option requires me to create an account at a third party site and presumably direct all of my traffic through this third party. This too is unacceptable to me.
So the question is, is there a simpler method to access my PC from an android device that's on a different network than having to setup a vpn or enabling port forwarding on my router, that doesn't require registering for and using a third party service to accomplish the goal?