Reducing services/processes

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Reducing services/processes

Postby FS_Pilot » Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:20 am

I am trying to reduce the amount of services running in the background to allow more for running Flightsim. There are currently 59 services running but i can manually turn some off when i run fs9. The toruble is some of these services are required by other users when they are logged in. Is there a way of creating a seperate login user with minimum services running or a program that will shut off all unessential services while fs9 is running?
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Re: Reducing services/processes

Postby Zaphod » Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:28 am

Hi FS_Pilot.
There is a freeware program called FSAutoStart which may be helpfull. I believe you can customise it to meet your requirements. Not sure about the "other user" issue.
Might be worth taking a look.

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Re: Reducing services/processes

Postby Fozzer » Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:04 am

Hi FS_Pilot.
There is a freeware program called FSAutoStart which may be helpfull. I believe you can customise it to meet your requirements. Not sure about the "other user" issue.
Might be worth taking a look.

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Re: Reducing services/processes

Postby DonAlfonsoRoKil » Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:14 am

FSAutostart is a completely different story - sorry, zaphod, but reading fs_Pilot's post would have been better than flying over it... ;)

Slow computer, he? I also always kill processes before flying! :D
One important thing, you have to differ between processes and services!
Processes are those you can see in your task-manager.
By googling you can get infos fur pretty sure nearly every or even all of your tasks.
You can kill many processes without any problems while others make your system crash. Google helps!
Services, however, are not tasks that are permanently blocking your RAM space.
Often, they're also integrated into tasks, as they are no independent working files.
Tasks/processes can differ from user to user depending on who is logged in.
But services who are often used to enable processes accessing hardware are already running before you log in.
So you can't disable services for one user - either enabled for all or disabled for all.
So the only thing I can suggest is, keep away from services - disabling them may kill your sys forever, if you don't know how to bring it back, but killing a process: no problem, just reboot and it's there again!
So try out killing processes with your task manager or an alternative one like "Process Explorer" (can easily be found with - again Google ;D ).

Crash!

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Re: Reducing services/processes

Postby JBaymore » Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:08 am

Hi FS_Pilot.
There is a freeware program called FSAutoStart which may be helpfull. I believe you can customise it to meet your requirements. Not sure about the "other user" issue.
Might be worth taking a look.

Zaphod


Please read NickN's take of FSAutostart before using.

Aslo see the FSX sticky for the definitive guide to tweaking your machjine for FS use.  99 Percent of it applies to ANY sim.

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Re: Reducing services/processes

Postby MWISimmer » Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:51 pm

Please read NickN's take of FSAutostart before using.


Which can be found here
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Re: Reducing services/processes

Postby DonAlfonsoRoKil » Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:30 am

best,

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best,

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Re: Reducing services/processes

Postby JBaymore » Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:57 am

[Remembering is the most important part of thinking!


Remembering what?   ;)
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Re: Reducing services/processes

Postby DonAlfonsoRoKil » Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:32 am

remembering what????
don't know what you're talking of?!  :-? :-?

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Re: Reducing services/processes

Postby caveman16 » Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:40 am

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Re: Reducing services/processes

Postby NickN » Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:55 am

FSAutostart has use for those who are on very restricted systems AND know what they are doing when using it


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Since he has 1280MB of RAM, FSAutostart its not going to make things better assuming he shuts down the services I outlined. -Minimum- RAM for FS9 use on Windows XP would be 768MB, 1GB (minimum) preferred. Best results is 2GB. FSAutostart really has no use if you run 1GB or more and besides, the only services that really interfere with the system are the ones I listed which get shut down if you optimize correctly anyway

Also, FSAutostart does not shut down services completely and recover the memory from them. All it does is shut down the service process. To correctly shut down a service AND recover the memory it used, you must follow my directions and shut down the service at LOGON (reboot). That is why I said the use of FSAutostart is typcially worthless. Many users also shut down things they should not with that program. It can help if you:

A: Know what you are doing
B: Have less than 768MB-1GB of RAM

otherwise, I would not mess with it.
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Re: Reducing services/processes

Postby FS_Pilot » Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:58 am

Does anyone know where i can get a copy of the manual or help files for FSAutostart? The Authors http://www.kensalter.com/fsautostart website has been shutdown and i would like to know how to set it up correctly before actually installing it and mucking it or my system up.
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Re: Reducing services/processes

Postby NickN » Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:02 am

Does anyone know where i can get a copy of the manual or help files for FSAutostart? The Authors http://www.kensalter.com/fsautostart website has been shutdown and i would like to know how to set it up correctly before actually installing it and mucking it or my system up.
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Trust me, you have over 1GB of memory. Just follow my directions in the thread posted above for service shutdown and that is really all you need.

As for startup programs, (not services) that is an area you need to know what can be shut down and what can not. I can not direct you in that without knowing what is on the system and no instructions for FSAutostart will tell you that for sure either.

You can shut down startup programs temp by unchecking them under the startup tab of the system configuration utility

START - RUN - type: MSCONFIG
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Re: Reducing services/processes

Postby NickN » Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:08 am

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SERVICES SHUTDOWN
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Re: Reducing services/processes

Postby FS_Pilot » Sat Nov 03, 2007 4:12 am

NickN, I appreciate your advice which I followed your procedure to the letter but it made little diffence. I currently have 58 processes running and i can reduce this to about 46 without any harmful effects which shows a noticable inprovement in performance. for Eg: there are 9 instances of svchost.exe running. Some of the examples i shutdown are ipod, Real player schedualer, acronis & oodefrag. It is a pain in the butt having to do it manually each time i want to run FSX or fs9. I was reading somewhere that you can setup a computer profile to run with minimum services and processes but i forgot where i seen it.
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