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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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 Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:44 am Post subject: XP question: Give everything to just one program? |
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My PC is getting on a bit. P4 2.4, 1gig RAM, 6600GT VGA.
I've been playing F.E.A.R. recently which pushes my system to it's limit even on medium settings. Great game though!
I was wondering if there is a quick way to turn off all the meaningless background programs, anti-virus, firewall, printer stuff, etc.... so that every bit of the CPU and RAM is devoted to just one program of my choosing.
I realize I could close them all down manually but that would be a time-consuming hassle.
Just a shot in the dark. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 4:40 am Post subject: |
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| google "end it all" and run that. Of course you're not going to want to be connected to the internet without a firewall or anti-virus program running. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| SuperHero wrote: |
| google "end it all" and run that. Of course you're not going to want to be connected to the internet without a firewall or anti-virus program running. |
That looks just the ticket. Cheers. |
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splok
Joined: 30 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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| you may already know this, but just in case, go to your start menu, click run, type msconfig, go to the startup tab, and uncheck everything you don't absolutely need |
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the saint
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Location: not there yet...
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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| splok wrote: |
| you may already know this, but just in case, go to your start menu, click run, type msconfig, go to the startup tab, and uncheck everything you don't absolutely need |
I've scuppered myself doing this and closed stuff I had no idea I really needed. It messed my brain up trying to figure out what I had to turn back on. There's a lot of stuff in there and not all the explanations are in English 
I suggest following this advice with a caveat: uncheck everything you are sure you don't absolutely need. |
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