This will allow you to disable a service or uninstall it from your system without effecting another service that depends on it. Here's how you do it
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After you have set your services the way you want them and you have disabled/uninstalled something that another services depends on, run "regedit"
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Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\find the service that will not function, do to another service being disabled/uninstall (found in ControlSet001\Services, ControlSet002\Services, and CurrentControlSet\Services)
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Once you have found the service right-click on the string value, "DependOnService,"and modify
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You should now see a list of services that it is dependent on. Simply delete the service that you have disabled/uninstalled
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Restart your computer and your ready to go Disclaimer REMEMBER TO BACKUP YOU REGISTRY FIRST I'm not totaly sure if this will have any negative effects on your system.
I used this method after uninstalling "Netbios over Tcpip" from my system completely, so that my Dhcp service would function and I have had NO negative effects on my system.
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