Mods, not sure if this is the right forum area, please move if deemed necessary. When i had XP, i used a freeware program called gamexp, which function was to remove all unnecessary running programs & services, so that when you played games/sims, all available cpu power/memory was available for games.Does something like this exist for vista, as FSX needs every resource it can get.John

Look for FSAutoStart. Hasn't been updated in a while. But, it is highly configurable with profiles that can be launched in a script. Kills tasks and services and works on Vista. It can perform a defrag on memory too ( questionable value with Vista's memory management ).Take a look at BlackViper's site for services and recommendations to stop or not.