Sometime back someone a trick. It was a command prompt thing which killed most background programs. And then at the end it reactivated your sound card!

It was cool that program, it made my games run like a rocket. I used to have

My PF memory usage used to be 500 MB after I'd run that program it used to drop down to under 100 MB.

Basically am looking for that, or I need something similar. You don't need Explorer.exe and stuff like that when playing a game its all bs. I have 41 processors running. And I only probably need 14 for when am playining a game.

Are yo telling me that you don't know how to kill background programs? Ctrl+Alt+Delete! You can delete any process that has your username next to it without your computer turning itself off. If you get rid of explorer.exe, you can't do anything in windows until you restart your computer, so after you close explorer.exe, you need to insert the Civ4 disk again. If you end tskmgr.exe, the task manager (the window you are using to close processes) will go away, so you can press Ctrl+Alt+Delete again. You didn't know how to do that?
Also, what about the sound card? I can still hear everything fine after I end the processes. I never do this anymore, though, because it doesn't help. It doesn't even make a difference if Outlook is open while I am playing. (Not because my computer is so fast, but because it is so slow! ;))

Click on Start>Run and type in MSCONFIG and hit OK

Then click on the Startup TAB and disable all. Then restart, all your startup junk will not load up anymore. If you look through the list and find a program that you just MUST have loading at bootup then re-check it, but you most certainly don't want that entire list checked, it is too much crap.

If you cancel Explorer.exe, go to "Run New Task..." and type in "explorer.exe".

:) Voila.

I think that he's looking for a program and doesnt want to manually do it. Come on guys, get in the game.:mad:

Moved to computer talk

I think that he's looking for a program and doesnt want to manually do it. Come on guys, get in the game.:mad:
We already figured out msconfig.

Duh am not stupid. Am looking for a file which will do this automatically.

You can make a file in text doc with all the command prompts - this is how I had it last time. It would kill all the programs and then at the end it would turn the sound card on.

Turn the soundcard on??? Why would it turn it OFF? And you only have to use msconfig ONCE and it will do that every time you turn on your computer.

Do you mean services by 'background programs'? If so then start>run...>services.msc; be careful what services you disable though...

Oh man, guys it was a .batch file or .dos file which did this automatically.

This is a stupid question, but once you disable explorer, how do you get it back?

Task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) > Applications > New Task... > explorer.exe > OK

Task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) > Applications > New Task... > explorer.exe > OK

Ok thanks for the help.