January 22, 200422 yr It's over at PC Magazine (Ziff Davis Media) Don't know the URL -- sorry.-------------------Racartronit means something, but I just can't remember what
January 22, 200422 yr Hey Mike try here.Just scroll down a bit when you get there. I have used this with Windows XP and it works fine. Althought I never use it much anymore.http://flightsimsetc.dhs.org/content.php?m=v&t=fs2002misc
January 23, 200422 yr When I did a "google" on "enditall", this came up..http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,697,00.aspb rdgs Dick
January 23, 200422 yr I missed this post yesterday....I wanted to make a suggestion regarding EndItAll...Don't get me wrong--it is a great utility. But one issue with EndItAll or any such utility is it can come in too late to prevent some applets from stealing resources from the system.Some applications literally hog resources. And for whatever reason, either intentionally or through poor coding, they don't release those resources when they are terminated either manually or through external proggies like EndItAll...I'd like to think the reason I get reasonable performance on a low spec system is the fact that I don't allow any applications to load at startup that aren't absolutely needed. I monitor all the common vectors that applications use--registered services, run entries in the registry, registry vxd entries, and even the old win.ini and system.ini methods... At startup, the only active apps I have are Explorer and Systray and less than ten running tasks, including those needed to keep windows going.This approach allows me to run a bit leaner and meaner than EndItAll would otherwise allow. Even with Windows 98, I start up with between 95-97 pct free system resources, which is almost unheard of. And RAM (which the resource figure doesn't measure) is efficiently used as well. I slide by with 384 megs and still have room to spare--usually 130megs or so free, when FS2004 is running.EndItAll is useful if you aren't technical enough to dig into what's going on underneath the hood... But if you're a hard core simmer and you want every bit of performance you can get from the sim, it may be worth it to research what happens to your system at the moment of startup. It is not as challenging as it sounds, and most research can be done without having to dig into the registry, using any number of free tools for looking at your system on the web...Regards,
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