Nick Lewis is a staff writer for How-To Geek. Related: Should You Disable Windows Services to Speed Up Your PC? The techniques we're covering here should work in pretty much any version of Windows-from XP all the way up through Windows 11. That said, if you do need to delete a service, you just need to find the actual name of that service and then issue a single command from the Command Prompt. Typically, just disabling a service is plenty, especially if all you're really trying to do is tweak your system performance (which probably won't work as well as you might hope, anyway). However, on Windows 11, removing it would probably render your computer unusable. On Windows 10 (and earlier) you could disable it and only experience minor inconvenience. Take CTFMon and the associated service for example. The exact purpose of any given service can change between versions of Windows, and even between major releases of the same version of the operating system. Kodi isn't dropping support for Windows 8.1 just yet, though.If you are going to delete a service, always try to find the most recent details about what that service does before you delete it. Microsoft ended all support and updates for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 earlier this year, and applications like Chrome and Edge moved on around the same time. There is one catch to Kodi 21: support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.0 have been removed, leaving Windows 8.1 as the minimum requirement.

There's a new option to use the Windows HDR/SDR brightness balance setting for the interface and subtitles, read speeds on SMB connections are faster, graphics compatibility has been improved, and DXVA2 AV1 hardware video decoding 8-bit and 10-bit is now supported. Kodi 21 also has many improvements specifically for Windows PCs. Related: Kodi 20.1 Has Arrived: Here's What's New Kodi is working on better window handling for Mac, but most of that work isn't enabled yet - there is a fix for CD/DVD drive handling on macOS, though. But what about new features? So far, support for reading and writing M3U8 music playlists has been added, Dolby Vision detection and compatibility is improved, Pipewire audio under Linux now supports passthrough formats (like DTS-HD and TrueHD), and you can now sort channel groups in PVR.

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