Classic British Flight Sim

Using Windows task manager, you can see a load of stuff running in the processes and services tabs. Does anyone use software to go through it all and shut down/delete what isn't required ?

These are the sorts of things I'm thinking of...

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/safely-clos ... -programs/

... but if anyone has any recommendations or experience with them, I'd be grateful.

Unless there is something obviously using a lot of resources I'd leave it all alone. I've tried terminating unnecessary services in the past and to be honest I've noticed bugger all difference.

Cheers Dave. 'Leaving well alone' is of course the default option when it comes to this sort of thing.

I would personally never trust or use any of the kind of programs in that link. I made a batch file (content below) called GoFlying.bat that sits on my desktop and gets run as administrator when I want to er... go flying. The contents were deduced from Task Manager and things I know that get started on boot. I find that it does make a difference so I guess everyone's mileage varies.

I also have a batch file that reinstates all this stuff, but I just find it easier to restart the PC.

There was a good post a while ago, sorry I can't remember who by and now can't find it. It suggested that you could have a separate login that only had your simulator installed. That would work but only as long as you're able to explicitly select "this user/all users" when installing software. Sadly you don't always get the choice. I think VMWare that I use a lot is one offender here and installs itself for all users like it or not.

HTH, Paul

net stop "Acronis Scheduler2 Service"
net stop "Acronis Sync Agent Service"
net stop "Apple Mobile Device Service"
net stop "Bonjour Service"
net stop "DbxSvc"
net stop "Epson Scanner Service"
net stop "VMware Workstation Server"
net stop "VMware Authorization Service"
net stop "VMware DHCP Service"
net stop "VMware NAT Service"
net stop "VMware USB Arbitration Service"
net stop "Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)"
net stop "ClickToRunSvc"
taskkill /IM VeraCrypt.exe /F
taskkill /IM MailWasherPro.exe /F
taskkill /IM E_YATIJJE.EXE /F
taskkill /IM EEventManager.exe /F
taskkill /IM iTunesHelper.exe /F
taskkill /IM javaw.exe /F
taskkill /IM pythonw.exe /F
taskkill /IM CCleaner64.exe /F

I wouldn't have a clue which ones of the numerous processes running in Task Manager I could safely kill so I tend to leave well alone and accept the 20-30 Fps which I get in FSX on Win7

Yes, caution is the watchword in all this. In the absence of something that safely does it all for me, I think I'll look up the larger processes and Google each of them one by one.