Is it safe to temporarily disable these processes for a gaming session?

Will I get a boost in performance with my 6150 in vista?

Should I also shut off the wireless card manually?

thank you

Media Center Media Status Aggregator Service
Media Center Tray Applet
HpqToaster Module
HPWAMain Module
Hewlett-Packard Product Assistant
HP Quickplay Resident Program
Windows Defender user interface
Module to process WiFi Messages
Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service Configuration Application

 

I shutdown the 2nd one,5&6,and the last one.

How much ram do you have?

 

There's nothing essential in the processes that you listed. Though you wouldn't get a graphics performance boost, unless you have less than 512 MB memory. The 6150 can only do so much. Switching the wifi off will improve battery life a bit.

 

thanks for the responses, I should've phrased that better.

I'm not looking to make the 6150 do what it can't, it's low end. I just want vista/cpu to dedicate itself to the game and not hold thumbnails for the taskbar and such in the shared memory or constantly check the internet for definitions and updates. I wasn't sure if that even makes a difference.

with 1G ram, my first boot showed 68% memory usage. I'm now booting with 42-45%, aero enabled w/ cosmetic tweaks. Vista really likes memory huh?

I didn't recognize many of the processes(other then hp), I'm coming from xp pro, and never used media center. I can boot my xp desktop with much less(1G also), if I could do the same with this notebook, that would be nice.

thanks again

 

I believe that Vista's RAM usage involves a lot of caching of applications to speed up startup times. In my experience running memory intensive apps on Vista (games, photoshop, etc) Vista will unload most of that data if RAM is needed so you really don't have to worry about it too much. Anytime I exit out of a game, once the game completes its shutdown my RAM usage from Vista is minimal (200-400 meg). Once the RAM frees up Vista will slowly claim back that RAM to cache things again. I'm making some assumptions in my logic here but that's the way it appears to work to me.

 

Can I use ready boost to help?

sorry, this may be for another thread, haven't searched if this has been discussed.