RESOLVED (thanks to Freeze1st): Window's Apps and Services You'd Like Temporarily Disabled

Bitflipper mentioned a few.  Jose mentioned others (services).  The following seem your/my temp enemies: 
  
AVG Resident Shield (or other antivirus)
All Networking (and BlueTooth)
 
I'm hoping for a list of apps and/or services that you think may definitely hurt your/my Sonar experience.  Please focus on Windows 7/64 or Windows XP-32.
 
I'll try to write (and share) 2 VBScripts that will:
 
1) Temporarily batch disable everything (except your virus checker ... which seems to require manual disablement) ... and launch Sonar
 
2) Re-enable everything that was disabled (except your virus checker ... which seems to require manual enablement)
 
Thanks for any thoughts, chimes, validations, etc.  (Don't worry about feeling stupid ... I may be the stupidest)

Cool concept.... this has been a recurring issue on every computer I've ever had...and the longer I own a machine the slower it gets and I have understood that it is due to background stuff that loads and runs....and the issue is I don;t know what to shut down or remove.....


I'm downloading the demo...thanks Robby

Thanks D'OH,

I looked at Tut, its apparently meant for XP-32.  Yet, its given me ideas for 'services' to disable/enable with VBScript.  Now if only it worked for my Win7-64 ... which contains a lot of DellWare which may be slowing things down during Sonar.

Philip


Thanks D'OH,

I looked at Tut, its apparently meant for XP-32.  Yet, its given me ideas for 'services' to disable/enable with VBScript.  Now if only it worked for my Win7-64 ... which contains a lot of DellWare which may be slowing things down during Sonar.

Just use XP32 and you're golden?

D'Oh!, I'll return to XP-32 when a time warp occurs.

SeveredVesper; I will try to incorporate most of your 'enemies' in the VBScript updates (as they are also my enemies) ... once God shows me the code via googling.

OTOH: You and others will have to place a single quote (') in front of any visual basic line ('enemy') that you don't want disabled/enabled.

SeveredVesper:  I believe the code I shared does not kill web instances.  But, I incidentally have been playing with a VBScript which (safely) kills all webs only:

strComputer = "."
strProcessToKill = "iexplore.exe"
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
 & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" _
 & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcess = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
 ("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = '" & strProcessToKill & "'")
count = 0
For Each objProcess in colProcess
 objProcess.Terminate()
 count = count + 1
Next
wscript.echo "Killed " & count & " instances of " & _
 strProcessToKill & "on " & strComputer
 
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So, I'll probably attempt to incorporate this code into the next VBScript disable.  (95% of the time I wouldn't love offline web sites looming behind Sonar.), Lord-willing.
 
Thank you for your most excellent list of potential 'enemies' of Sonar.

Note to SeveredVesper: Open Windows Device Manager Network sub-menu.  When you run the disable VBScript you will see your 'working' network adapter become disabled.  And vice-versa when you hit your enable VBScript.
 
VBScript is worth a little bit of geeky study (which I'm confident any Sonarite can handle).
AV software is troublesome; I use AVG Free and must manually uncheck/recheck "Resident Shield" (which controls Win Defender). 
 
As far as disabling the firewall ... I don't even know anything about that.  I suppose I'd leave it on (hoping its not a Sonar 'enemy').
To disable autoplay: http://autorun.moonvalley.com/enable.htm
Just rightclick the CD drive in explorer and choose what to disable. 
 
Of course, I will attempt VBScript to temp disable CDs, Portable devices, Printers, and maybe some other sound and/or game controllers.

+1, MGH.  I'm the same as you (per se/most of the time)

No VBScript shoe will fit everyone ... also, any VBScript must be adjusted by each user as every Windows process and service is intricate per DAW and computer.  I'll spare you.

A VBScript one day may be a blessing; the next day it may seem worthless.  By sci-method there are hypothetical benefits that seem worth testing further ...

WARNING: I downloaded ONE thing last night.... the TUT program..... I'm running a virus scan right now because my virus software detected problems.... as of right now 12 viruses have been quarantined, and the scan is still running.....

 

Yeah.... I am not 100% sure but that is the only thing I down loaded recently to my laptop. Then that warning popped up and the scan showed up 12 as of last night..... all properly caught by the virus software.


I'll do that Philip.

Guitarhacker


Yeah.... I am not 100% sure but that is the only thing I down loaded recently to my laptop. Then that warning popped up and the scan showed up 12 as of last night..... all properly caught by the virus software.


I'll do that Philip.

Sorry to hear you are having virus warnings. Anything you download or that is sent to you, you can upload it for free to a site called "Virus Total ", they scan the file online with just about every commercial virus testing program on the market and tell if you they detect anything. There is however a 20mb file size limit. It's really fast, I use it all the time. There's a few other sites that do that but I like Virus Total the best, it's never failed me.

I send everything I can to be scanned there. It's interesting if it finds something to see which ones catch the virus, to me that says a lot as to which Virus protection I will be using.

The three highest rated companies that have "FREE ANTI-VIRUS PROTECTION" don't catch a majority of what's out there surprisingly according to the Virus Total scan results from the various Anti-Virus scans it does.

It's just an excellent tool to check 20mb or smaller files.

I also use Trend Micro's House Call Trend Micro's House Call Link from time to time just as an xtra precautions, it's free and will do a full scan and more importantly "CLEAN" the viruses if any are found.

Bobby

Freeze, thanks for chiming here; very thoughtful help here.

I still ponder if it wouldn't it be hypothetically better to have one 'optional batch file' click do it all ... including launching Sonar?  And one click to  'batch file' undo it all?

I run a gaming DAW with a Windows (7) Experience Index of 7.6. 

Even it has issues with backround processes; benign ones. 

The Vista Services Optimizer appears as a very cool free tool; I'll certainly research it ... and report.  Again, thanks Freeze, for your most excellent thoughts!
 
EDIT 1:
 
OK, Freeze, I'm getting promising results from using Vista Services Optimizer (for my Win7/64).  And its not expectation bias.  I did a Windows 'disk-clean' to my computer beforehand. 
 
After I
(1) performed the VSO diagnositic questionere
(2) and hit the optimize button,
(3) I rebooted my computer. 
 
Win7/64 and Sonar 64 are now both launching faster.
 
Hypothesis: It may be I won't have to re-invent the wheel for myself/others with batch files ... if my initial results remain consistent.
 
And I haven't even tried the "Gaming Mode" yet.
 
If this keeps up, I will not share my batch scripts.  Also, this seems the only free-app out there that does what I need.
 
But, I'm still winking and crossing my fingers.
EDIT 2:
 
Gaming Mode: Takes about 10 seconds to stop additional "Unnecessary Windows services" (from a user friendly list). 
 
A CPU intensive song of mine (EvoTrash) roughly ranges:
Normal Mode: 16-26%
Gaming Mode: 15-25%
 
Gaming mode frees my CPU 1%, FWIW.
 
Conclusion(s):
For now (today at least ... probably indefinitely), I'll count my blessings with Vista Services Optimizer and not burden any of you with my 'inferior' scripts and batch files.  Today, I'll validate Freeze1st, and strongly recommend this free-ap.
 
I consider this thread solved/re-solved (for today at least).

LOL! I understand, DAW problems blow donkeys... I think TUT RULES! :-) It shows you "everything" that's running and gives you a nice little write up about it, and let's you have options about how to treat it, "good stuff TUT". :-) And no, I don't work for them or own stock :-) I think you'll like that SW.