Optimizing: How many processes do you have running?

Hey, that's neat! Could you tell me how to implement auto-logon?

 

Oh there are several tools that can set this up. Even microsofts own tweakui can do that and that's a free one. You can set the user and password there and it will autologon you during boot.

I use SafeGuard that ask for userid and password before even booting the mbr of the harddisk. If you enter them incorrectly you have to wait longer and longer before you can try again, that wait time goes eponential so you better know your password. Besides it encrypts the entire harddisk with 256bit AES in realtime in the background. Every incomming data is encrypted without a loss in respect to performance. So if my SZ2 needs to go to the Sony Service one day, I can be assured that they can't see anything on my hdd. Not even removing the hdd and plugging it into another pc as an external drive or something will help. You won't be able to acess or see an data on that drive. Know the key or break a 256bit AES encryption. That's a very secure and comfortable way. So I don't need windows to ask for user again.

 

Just out of interest, i have 92 processes running, does having a lot of processes running affect aming performance?

 

Yes because they eat up a lot of RAM that would otherwise be free to use by games. On my SZ2 for example I freed up nearly 80MB of RAM that can now be used by other RAM hungry programs or games.