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Can I automate shutdown of background resources when gaming?

I recently decided to stop dual booting to 2 different hard drives (one for just games, one for everything else) and go with one drive. I bought a new, fast 2TB drive and a new EVGA GTX 660ti nVidia video card with 2GB of Video RAM. I have 8GB of system RAM, Quad core processor, etc. So now I have plenty of speed and performance for my games. I can easily put my Anti-Virus into "game mode", but I was wondering:

Which other background services can I / should I shut down?

Is there a way to create a file that I could shut these services off while I'm gaming and then turn them back on when I'm done?

Or should I even bother because the system can handle it?

Thanks

Skyler Kincaid

You could write a script to shutdown services and then another one to turn then back on but if you don't have a lot of programs installed on your computer there probably isn't anything to worry about.

If you wanted to write a script to shutdown a service all you need is:

net stop servicename
net stop servicename
...

put these lines in a text file and save it with the .bat extension.

You could also write another one to start the services when you are done:

net start servicename
net start servicename
...

What services are you thinking?

John

I can easily put my Anti-Virus into "game mode"

In addition to the above (it is very easy to stop services using net stop as described above), I would ask why you want to (apparently) disable Antivirus to game. This is just the situation where viruses attack. Why not keep Antivirus running?

... Thinkpads_User

ArtG2521

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Not sure, but the services that are resource hogs, if any. I believe there was a free program, "autoruns" or something that showed you all the programs running in the background.

ArtG2521

ASKER

Bitdefender has a specific game mode. It doesn't shut down completely. I never had virus problems when I had the games on a separate drive with Bitdefender in game mode

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