Freewareprogram to shutdown services/programs
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Been using it for a while now. Though admit I only tend to use it when going for a new record on 3dmark as it were, rather than all the time (takes the program a short time to stop then restart all the services).
Its a decent program which allows you to assign different profiles, which let you choose a combination of services to be stopped. The services are all listed within the GUI and come with a short explanation suggesting weather or not that service should be stopped, or left running as its a crucial system service. It can also defragement the memory should you wish.
So you launch a profile, it then starts to close the specified services (can even shut down the desktop environment which saves loads of extra Mb) And once the services have been stopped it can even then auto launch a program for you - I make it start 3dmark06 or vantage - though you can tell it to start anything ie a game.
Once your done, a key combination will restart all the service / desktop for you, though I find that going to browse the 3dmark results online (ie firefox being started by 3dmark) will start the reboot of the services.
When my vista64 boots normally, I find that it uses about 1100-1400Mb (very roughly) just starting up and doing nothing. Though currently am using 1700Mb out of 4000Mb total. Once I run this program, and then immediately restart all the services, I find vista is then using about 800mb, so it is freeing up a decent chunck of memory killing unneeded services and taking everything but the bare minimum out of memory.
A good program I think all in all. Cant harm to have extra memory available to bench with, or ensuring that a services doesnt decide to do something mid benchmark which could adversley effect things.
Its a decent program which allows you to assign different profiles, which let you choose a combination of services to be stopped. The services are all listed within the GUI and come with a short explanation suggesting weather or not that service should be stopped, or left running as its a crucial system service. It can also defragement the memory should you wish.
So you launch a profile, it then starts to close the specified services (can even shut down the desktop environment which saves loads of extra Mb) And once the services have been stopped it can even then auto launch a program for you - I make it start 3dmark06 or vantage - though you can tell it to start anything ie a game.
Once your done, a key combination will restart all the service / desktop for you, though I find that going to browse the 3dmark results online (ie firefox being started by 3dmark) will start the reboot of the services.
When my vista64 boots normally, I find that it uses about 1100-1400Mb (very roughly) just starting up and doing nothing. Though currently am using 1700Mb out of 4000Mb total. Once I run this program, and then immediately restart all the services, I find vista is then using about 800mb, so it is freeing up a decent chunck of memory killing unneeded services and taking everything but the bare minimum out of memory.
A good program I think all in all. Cant harm to have extra memory available to bench with, or ensuring that a services doesnt decide to do something mid benchmark which could adversley effect things.
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