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    Lost Application: Kills every background process (e.g. themes e.t.c) temporarily for

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by joebusby, Apr 10, 2008.

  1. joebusby

    joebusby Notebook Consultant

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    Anyone remember this? With the advent of asssasins creed, I need to squeeze every little last second of power from my laptop. The program used to turn windows into as low a power mode and ram mode as physically possible: e.g. removing themes, removing random services, supports.

    Anyone remember what this was called and where I could get it?
     
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    Search the forum for something called "Game Profile", it works best on XP and works (somewhat) on Vista.
     
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    joebusby Notebook Consultant

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    Thankyou very much.
     
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    If your on XP, you can close explore.exe and run the game using the task manager. This is probably what hogs most of the resources. Just type C: after your done so explorer goes back on

    For vista you can close dwm.exe (aero) and explore.exe
     
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    StormEffect Lazer. *pew pew*

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    Try typing this into the run command prompt before gaming:
    rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

    That should execute all background tasks to completion. The ones that CAN be stopped at least.

    And make sure you defrag the hard drive some time.
     
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