I got an email from Magnus T, and he told me about a neat little trick you can do with a batch file and with services. Here is what he had to say: "I have made a cmd file which I run before I start Grand Prix Legends (which is a really demanding game). This batch file stops the unnecessary services while I play the game. Then I can restart them with a batch script or reboot... Even the antivirus stuff can go while I'm playing (my well known game exe of course)"
You can make your own batch file, and I recommend you do just that. This is really for the more advance users, so if you have no idea how to make a batch file, how to run a batch, ect. Don't try this! Below is a list of some services that "Magnus T" stops when he wants to play a game, that requires a lot of resources and memory.
net stop "AVSync Manager"
net stop "Automatic Updates"
net stop "Computer Browser"
net stop "Cryptographic Services"
net stop "Distributed Link Tracking Client"
net stop "Help and Support"
net stop "Logical Disk Manager"
net stop "Messenger"
net stop "Print Spooler"
net stop "Protected Storage"
net stop "Server"
net stop "Shell Hardware Detection"
net stop "System Event Notification"
net stop "System Restore Service"
net stop "Task Scheduler"
net stop "TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper"
net stop "Themes"
net stop "Upload Manager"
net stop "WebClient"
net stop "Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)"
net stop "Windows Management Instrumentation"
net stop "Windows Time"
net stop "Workstation"
net stop "System Event Notification"
net stop "COM+ Event System"
net stop "Network Connections"
net stop "Network Location Awareness (NLA)"
net stop "Remote Access Auto Connection Manager"
net stop "SSDP Discovery Service"
net stop "DHCP Client"
net stop "DNS Client"
pskill ERtray
pskill EPMWOR~1
pskill dbgout
pskill usrbridg
pskill ctfmon
pskill Alogserv
pskill RuLaunch
pskill devldr32
For an example, in my batch file I would leave out net stop "Network Connections" because my DSL requires this to run. So make your own batch file! Not everyone's configuration is the same. You might be asking what "pskill" is? Well, it's a program that kills background processes. You can leave all of that out of your batch file and just shutdown services. If you want to gain the extra memory before you play a game, you should shutdown all background processes that are not needed. You can download pskill
here. Like I said above, everyone's configuration is different.
Okay, you have finished playing your game of Medal of Honor, how do you start the services back? Well, you need to make a seperate batch file with all of the services you have listed in your previous batch file. However, you need to change all of the services from "net stop" to "net start" for example:
net start "AVSync Manager"
would start the AVSync Manager.
