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The service is NOT dangerous. If you use other firewall than Microsofts and you DO NOT share printers, files or computer resources with other computers (ie. A network) you can disable the alg.exe service. however, if you do share printers, files or computer resources with other computers (ie. A network), leave this service alone cause you'll need it.

If you need to set this service to Manual. You can change this by doing this:

Click then Type cmd then click

At the command prompt type the following:
sc config alg start= demand

*note: there are a total of 4 spaces in the above command that are important. If you miss putting in a space the command will not work. Yes, There is a space after ‘start=’

If, according to the Recommended Setting, you need to set this service to Disabled. You can change this by doing this:

Click then Type cmd then click

At the command prompt type the following:
sc config alg start= disabled

*note: there are a total of 4 spaces in the above command that are important. If you miss putting in a space the command will not work. Yes, There is a space after ‘start=’

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