Hi FS_Pilot.
There is a freeware program called FSAutoStart which may be helpfull. I believe you can customise it to meet your requirements. Not sure about the "other user" issue.
Might be worth taking a look.

Zaphod

FSAutostart is a completely different story - sorry, zaphod, but reading fs_Pilot's post would have been better than flying over it...

Slow computer, he? I also always kill processes before flying!
One important thing, you have to differ between processes and services!
Processes are those you can see in your task-manager.
By googling you can get infos fur pretty sure nearly every or even all of your tasks.
You can kill many processes without any problems while others make your system crash. Google helps!
Services, however, are not tasks that are permanently blocking your RAM space.
Often, they're also integrated into tasks, as they are no independent working files.
Tasks/processes can differ from user to user depending on who is logged in.
But services who are often used to enable processes accessing hardware are already running before you log in.
So you can't disable services for one user - either enabled for all or disabled for all.
So the only thing I can suggest is, keep away from services - disabling them may kill your sys forever, if you don't know how to bring it back, but killing a process: no problem, just reboot and it's there again!
So try out killing processes with your task manager or an alternative one like "Process Explorer" (can easily be found with - again Google ).

Crash!

rev

JBaymore wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2007 at 10:08am:


Which can be found here

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Remembering what?   

     And I thought I had it bad    

Does anyone know where i can get a copy of the manual or help files for FSAutostart? The Authors http://www.kensalter.com/fsautostart website has been shutdown and i would like to know how to set it up correctly before actually installing it and mucking it or my system up.
FS_Pilot

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SERVICES SHUTDOWN  

CONTROL PANEL - ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS - SERVICES  
 
Each service I list below has the exact same procedure to shutting it down CORRECTLY. All you have to do is the following to each service on the list:  
 
1. Double click the service.  
 
2. STARTUP TYPE: if it is not already disabled, change it to DISABLED, click APPLY.    
 
3. LOGON TAB: HARDWARE PROFILE BOX – double click your hardware profile and it should change the login under the SERVICE column to DISABLED, click APPLY and OK.  
 
4. Go to the next service and repeat the process  
 
Here is the list: (note: some of these may not appear in your service list)  
 
ALERTER  
CLIPBOOK  
ERROR REPORTING SERVICE  
HELP AND SUPPORT  
INDEXING SERVICES  
MESSENGER  
NETMEETING REMOTE DESKTOP SHARING  
NETWORK DDE  
NETWORK DDE DSDM  
PERFORMANCE LOGS AND ALERTS  
REMOTE REGISTRY  
ROUTING AND REMOTE ACCESS  
SECURITY CENTER (IT’S ONLY THE NAG, NOT SECURITY)
SYSTEM RESTORE SERVICE (Unless you want it enabled)
TELNET (SOME PROGRAMS MIGHT NEED THIS BUT I DON’T USE IT)  
 


Close the services list, reboot


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Browse to CONTROL PANEL - SYSTEM -SYSTEM RESTORE TAB:  
 
NOTE: THIS IS A SETTING YOU WILL NEED TO DECIDE ABOUT.    
 
I do not use system restore. It’s a Resource HOG. However many people use this feature and rely on it. If you use system restore and cannot live without it, SKIP THIS STEP. If you want to shut it down, here is the process:  
 
CHECK: TURN OFF SYSTEM RESTORE ON ALL DRIVES  
If any warnings pop up, just say YES and click APPLY, then OK to close the system properties.  

reboot

MY COMPUTER, right click your C drive.  

UNCHECK "allow indexing services to index this disk"...  

When the box appears select YES for ALL SUB FOLDERS AND FILES.. the process will take a while.  

Once complete repeat the same process for all the hard drives listed in MY COMPUTER.  

If it stops for some reason, click either continue or ignore for ONLY the file it stops for so it will continue the process.  

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Thats it

the rest is in shutting down startup programs (which you can do with FSAutostart) and other reg/settings tweaks FSAutostart does not deal with at all


I do not see the program giving you any benefit, at all


and some people find FSAutostart crashes on their systems... If you have 1GB or more in memory, the use of the software is benign