Shut down unwanted starters

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windy

When I work in graphics I need all the memory I can find. I want to know
if there is a program which you could shut down all the services, dlls, and
program things that run in the background which is not needed until you
reboot again. I would like to beable to list all these and hit a stop
button, that would be nice. Yeah.
.........Windy
 
windy said:
When I work in graphics I need all the memory I can find. I want to know
if there is a program which you could shut down all the services, dlls, and
program things that run in the background which is not needed until you
reboot again. I would like to beable to list all these and hit a stop
button, that would be nice. Yeah.
........Windy
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This may be the sort of thing you're looking for:
http://freewebhosting.hostdepartment.com/p/publicfree/gamexp.htm GameXP
allows you to back up your current settings, which I think is an important
first step, and then with the click of a button it modifies a bunch of
performance-related settings including the disabling of some services:
http://freewebhosting.hostdepartment.com/p/publicfree/GameXPHelp.htm

I first used GameXP just this past week in an effort to persuade DoomIII
to run smoothly on my system. Updating my graphics card drivers
ultimately turned out to be the fix I required, but GameXP seemed to cause
no problems on my system, and did seem to successfully restore my original
settings once I'd finished experimenting with it.

Regards,
Ian.
 
windy said:
When I work in graphics I need all the memory I can find. I want to know
if there is a program which you could shut down all the services, dlls, and
program things that run in the background which is not needed until you
reboot again. I would like to beable to list all these and hit a stop
button, that would be nice. Yeah.
........Windy
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Try to use Process Explorer available in
www.sysinternals.com

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windy said:
When I work in graphics I need all the memory I can find. I want to know
if there is a program which you could shut down all the services, dlls, and
program things that run in the background which is not needed until you
reboot again. I would like to beable to list all these and hit a stop
button, that would be nice. Yeah.
........Windy
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Q: Anyone have a handy working link to download TrayKiller or old free
Game XP? (I briefly poked around but admit I haven't looked very
hard.)

Windy, you will find additional suggestions and commentary in the ACF
archives accessible via Google Groups. Try either of these queries
just to get started:
(stop services) OR (kill processes) group:alt.comp.freeware
enditall OR gamexp OR "tech systray" OR traykiller
group:alt.comp.freeware

A few possibilities are EndItAll, GameXP, Kill Win, Mr. Tech Systray,
and TrayKiller(all described below). If you are comfortable with
batch scripts, write your own or use AutoHotkey, AutoIt, or Batchrun.
PrcView comes with PV.EXE, a commandline utility. Sysinternals and
DiamondCS also offer commandline utilities.

I assume you have a good task/process monitor like:
CurrProcess - www.nirsoft.com or nirsoft.cjb.net
Lists running processes and for each "all modules (DLL files) that
the
process loads into memory. For all processes and modules,
additional
useful information.... Kill a process, Dump memory of
process...."
FaberTools (free) - www.FaberBox.com
Lists processes (close/kill), services (pause/stop), and autoruns
(status, suspend/remove).
Process Explorer - www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml
PrcView - www.PrcView.com or www.teamcti.com/pview
Advanced Process Termination
- www.diamondcs.com.au/index.php?page=products
"In addition to process termination, APT also allows you to
Suspend and
Resume processes, and also serves as a useful process list
utility."
TaskMan+ - DiamondCS
Windows Task Manager with greater privileges.

Or perhaps you prefer service or driver specific monitors like
NirSoft's relevant pair:
ServiWin
Lists installed drivers and services. You can "easily stop,
start,
restart, pause, and continue service or driver, change the startup
type...."
DriverView
Lists loaded device drivers with details.

Some security related applications, startup managers, etc., also will
let you view and control task processes and services. Some support
multiple profiles per user (IIRC, Startup-Mechanic) or generate
scripts. See:
Spybot Search & Destroy - www.safer-networking.org
WinPatrol (free)- www.winpatrol.com
Autoruns - Sysinternals
Autostart Viewer - DiamondCS
(Codestuff) Starter - codestuff.cjb.net
StartMan Startup Manager - www.pt.lu/comnet/desc/startman.html
jv16 Powertools - www.macecraft.com/

I know EndItAll is close to what you described but one of the others
might be better for your purposes. I haven't used the others (or not
the relevant features). TrayKiller and Game XP have been on my todo
list for some time. I haven't tried Mr. Tech Systray since whenever.

CloseAll
web.tiscali.it/bk/freeware.html
"From the Windows taskbar you can minimize but you can't close all the
applications. This little utility (33 KB) just do it, asking if you
want to save the data, if necessary.... readme.txt file [describes]
all the new features." (Maybe just closes applications visible in
taskbar?)

EndItAll v1
(I regard v1 as freely available but EndItAll v1 and v2 from
www.PCMag.com requires a special subscription. Either can be found
via a careful search -- starting with the ACF archive.)
List running processes and services. Some have preassigned values
(allow or prevent termination). You can assign others. Close or kill
processes. Note that some XP user have reported problems with v1;
others, not.

GameXP (old free)
(Search for old free version.) www.theorica.tk has trialware.
"... intended to optimize the performance of your computer for gaming
needs. It tweaks and modifies various XP settings (cache settings, CPU
priority etc.) and optionally disables or stops several Windows
services that are usually not needed." Trialware might provide
cross-check on other recommendations or basis for custom batch file.

Kill Win (free)
www.bk-soft.com/killwin.htm
"... a Shutdown-Utility for Windows with many functions." The Close
All option might be what you want.

Mr. Tech Systray (free)
www.mrtech.com/mrsystray
"Stop Services: .... Look under the Tools|Stop Services menu. There is
also now a configurable stop services option, just load up the
'Customize Services to Stop' and use the 'Stop All Checked Services
Below' Option. You can also enable this behavior from startup from the
Options menu, just select 'On Startup Stop Checked Services'.

TrayKiller
(The site I mentioned last fall and my other link are dead but many
archive sites list it and may have an actual copy.)
"... configure groups of programs to start and stop by toggling an
icon in the system tray. It's useful for quickly killing background
processes before you do cpu intensive operations like burning cds or
capturing video, and then restarting them when you are done." Create
multiple instances to specify different profiles for the same user.

If anyone tries several, please let us know how they compare.

BillR
 
[posted and mailed]

When I work in graphics I need all the memory I can find. I want to
know if there is a program which you could shut down all the services,
dlls, and program things that run in the background which is not
needed until you reboot again. I would like to beable to list all
these and hit a stop button, that would be nice. Yeah.
........Windy
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You can, and probably should, go to Run and run msconfig. It has a
Startup tab and you can disable all those programs that when you install
them believe they should own you PC and that you should never run the PC
without them. The vast majority of such items run just fine on an as
needed basis and don't need to be constantly running. Most of the
extras in the system tray can be best managed just by using msconfig,
which is part of Win XP. That is the first thing I do when I see an
unstable machine. Things like InCD, AIM, etc. take memory, other
resources, etc. There is also a nice little free program called SafeXP
which can help you shut down, through registry changes, unneeded
services, particularly those that leave the machine vulnerable to
malware. Reboot after you choose those services you want to disable.
What you uncheck in msconfig, startup tab, remain listed there,
unchecked, and can be turned back on if you need. Thus you can
experiment a little.


--
Dennis Roark

(e-mail address removed)
Starting Points:
http://sio.midco.net/denro/www
 
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