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Im trying to find Microsofts most critical services but everything i seem to find is services that are safe to disable. Does anyone know of the most important services that if you disable them your pc is screwed?

It can be be for all the os's i just cant seem to find them is all
Here are some videos that Brian made on the subject... This one...





And this one...



Yeah ive seen those but i didnt notice anything about the most critical process's like i know for sure
Windows Management Instrumentation service is must have because i disabled it and my system was broke and i couldn't click on a folder or anything like i was suprised my mouse moved but that problem is fixed now though but id like to know all the services in the
"Windows Management Instrumentation" category if its possible
This will help you find critical windows services

Critical System Services
That seems helpful but im not sure how to

Register the process using the RmRegisterResources function.
Call the RmGetList function to get the RM_PROCESS_INFO structure.
The ApplicationType member of the returned RM_PROCESS_INFO structure contains a RM_APP_TYPE enumeration value. This value is set to RmCriticial for a critical system process.
Critical system services include smss.exe, csrss.exe, wininit.exe, logonui.exe, lsass.exe, services.exe, winlogon.exe, System, svchost.exe with RPCSS, and svchost.exe with Dcom/PnP.

Like is it a code you copy to cmd prompt or PowerShell or do i just stop or restart each service to see which ones are successful and lets me do so?