In search for ultimate performance one should disable or at least shutdown a plentitude of background services. A lot of good information about unnecessary ones is available here and there, but... What if you need your rig for general use too? Recently I wanted to remotely adjust a friend's computer, but i couldn't due to gaming oriented disabled services.
Now, if someone capable enough could do a couple of scripts and a bunch of hints how to modify them at will, I would be very grateful. As you might guess, one script would shutdown and/or disable all unnecessary services and another would start them again. I know how to start/stop them, but not how to disable or enable. Another thing I don't know about batch files or scripts is, if I don't have a certain service, would a script referring to such an inexistance cause problems.
I have made one script when a soundcard driver caused my print spooler not to start automatically. It was a very simple one with just two lines:
@echo off
@net start spooler
The "real name" of each service for such "net start/net stop" batches can be found in the properties of each service, so it wouldn't be a big job to make a decent script to stop the resource hogs before gaming, but some of them tend to restart automatically, so they should be temporarily disabled too. I know someone can do that and knows all the caveats within, so please
I'm running XP pro, but I guess there would be many thankful users for XP Home and Vista orientated batch files,too. Thank you in advance!
