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Title: A nice script would do...
Post by: Bizman on April 05, 2008, 01:36:50 PM
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  :pray

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!
Title: Re: A nice script would do...
Post by: NHawk on April 05, 2008, 03:30:01 PM
User profiles would work just as well.
Title: Re: A nice script would do...
Post by: Bizman on April 05, 2008, 03:42:43 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't disabled services stay disabled for all users?
Title: Re: A nice script would do...
Post by: Spatula on April 05, 2008, 05:12:33 PM
google FSAutoStart
Title: Re: A nice script would do...
Post by: Bizman on April 06, 2008, 12:16:01 PM
Thanks Spatula, gave it a try and after some fiddling found out how it works.  :aok
Title: Re: A nice script would do...
Post by: scot12b on April 06, 2008, 03:25:23 PM
I tried FSAUtostart it will not work with Vista :cry
Title: Re: A nice script would do...
Post by: The Fugitive on April 06, 2008, 05:19:25 PM
I tried FSAUtostart it will not work with Vista :cry

Well theres a surprise !!! Nothing works with Vista !   :D

You can try End It All (http://www.docsdownloads.com/enditall-1.htm) The page says it works in vista.