The fact that these services aren’t used is a reason to deactivate them. Such services are like the open doors of a house – even if the owner isn’t going through them, a burglar can and will come in.
Services means anything
- that runs in the background
- exists installed in the computer
- can be executed/called by other programs or by the user
Last but not least, any installed program installs registries, files which might slow down your computer over time.
These any many other tips can be found in the free eBook “Improve your security”.
All these and many more topics are in the free eBook "Improve your security" available here: www.improve-your-security.org.