jm24
There is still a need to tweek computers. No matter how fast they are, the imbeciles managing software development continue to add crap without permission doing stuff that is not needed.
 
A couple of years ago, at 1am on a wednesday, during a session, the defragger started. Lots of crap like that is run from the taskscheduler.

I think am not alone who is tired with all that endless residents, services and tasks in modern Windows versions.
 
Back in XP time, to play online game i was using a kind of KillEmAll process killed. And that was doing the trick.
 
I wish there is a small "smart" program whith can TEMPORARILY kill all unneeded processes, services and tasks. I can do this manually but: (a) many reappear after updates (b) in general I want the system is completely functional with all background services, so I do not want have them off permanently.
 
I am looking for such software but I have not found it yet.

Try looking for alcracity pc for that. It ceased development alas it might still work. I will see if I can find my older version and try it.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/alacritypc/

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https://sourceforge.net/projects/alacritypc/

Thanks, but I will not risk to run it on Win10. The first and the only version is from 2012. Also Sourceforge without the source and from the description it does not deal with Tasks (from my view most problematic part, that is what triggering services...).

You can tell it what to kill. Essentially it sets up military script and runs a dos session. It uses the service id and pauses programs runtime assignents you choose. Alas no changes are permanent. Disabling the BITS service and Windows update through a couple of command lines will also speed up things.

Sorry autocorrect. Killtask that should be....but close enough.

DaGeek

Anderton
Is it necessary to re-authorize AD2? Frankly I don't use AD2 because it seems that if I sneeze, I have to re-authorize it.

Yes - just Remove and Add your machine in XLN Online Installer and that should do it.

AHA!!! Thanks!

kevinwal
I have the creator's update installed on all my machines now, no bumps, no crashes, no corruption. It went very smoothly. As a previous poster pointed out, it will re-enable devices that you may prefer to be off, and you will have to re-authorize some plug-ins, but it was all in all a very smooth update experience for me.

We are about half way through the grace period until we see this forced upon us (even with feature updates deferred) ... so is above in line with what most of you observed with the Creators update?
 
Did you have the reinstall drivers? How about win8 drivers that required driver signing to be turned off to get it to install ... do they still work / require reinstall / don't work?
 
 

The update hit my laptop yesterday.  I run loopbe virtual midi ports and there were some issues with that.  Just had to recheck how many virtual ports I wanted and reboot.  Had 2 screensaver programs that needed reinstall.  I run dual monitors - found my desktop icons on secondary monitor so I dragged them back to primary monitor.  Had to reauth AD2 but was easy.  Found Windows.old containing 20G which is probably for backing out the update, if that's possible.  Not planning on backing out though since I do regular image backups.  So I ran disk cleanup and blew away the 20G.  Found Game Mode on and turned it off.  The entire update took about 2 hours.  Now it seems to be ok, at least until I check other things.

Just migrated the first machine after having an endless battle with stuck updates before ...

I had to reinstall VS-700R drivers with the driver signing off trick (interestingly VS-700C worked without reinstallation), reauthorize AD2, reinstall WAVES about 3 times to get rid of VST scan errors and reinstall the driver for ESI M4U XT MIDI boxes which were behaving really funny after the update ... now seems up to date and properly recognized by win10 ... hopefully nothing serious will pop up now when get down to business ...

... and game mode is of course disabled ..