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.
FS_Pilot
What anti-virus program are you running? I originally had McAfee and it ran 5 or six processes in the startup. Now I have NOD32 and it only runs one.
As to Nick's recommendations, I followed it to the letter and went from 51 to 36 processes. As for the startup, I believe I have about 7 or 8 services running.
