

(1) Why are some services grayed out from being disabled by admin? I tried stopping real-time anti-virus protection from Windows Defender but that did not help.

I had no issues disabling these on earlier version of Windows 10 Home (I think it was 16xx). Specifically, "DNS Client" and" WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto Discovery" services are grayed out from being able to be disabled. With this Windows version, however, I noticed a couple of those are grayed out when I go to disable them and so I cannot change their default Automatic settings. For now, I am only trying to harden the system first from within its only admin account I create as part of setup.Īs part of this hardening, I normally disable some of the services. I just cleanly installed it from scratch and have not connected to internet yet. I am running Windows 10 Home 1709 version.
