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Reply #15 - Nov 3rd, 2007 at 1:24pm

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FS_Pilot wrote on Nov 3rd, 2007 at 5:12am:
NickN, I appreciate your advice which I followed your procedure to the letter but it made little diffence. I currently have 58 processes running and i can reduce this to about 46 without any harmful effects which shows a noticable inprovement in performance. for Eg: there are 9 instances of svchost.exe running. Some of the examples i shutdown are ipod, Real player schedualer, acronis & oodefrag. It is a pain in the butt having to do it manually each time i want to run FSX or fs9. I was reading somewhere that you can setup a computer profile to run with minimum services and processes but i forgot where i seen it.
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What anti-virus program are you running? I originally had McAfee and it ran 5 or six processes in the startup. Now I have NOD32 and it only runs one.

As to Nick's recommendations, I followed it to the letter and went from 51 to 36 processes. As for the startup, I believe I have about 7 or 8 services running.
 

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Reply #16 - Nov 3rd, 2007 at 2:18pm

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I am running eTrust Vet Anti-virus from CA. it is running 4 processes by the looks of things. I use a program called Process Explorer by Sysinternals to check what is running. Not sure think it is an Australia only product but Computer Associates is an international company who bought out VET.
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