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Posted by Nigel Barker on June 12, 2007, 12:13 am
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>I'd like to regain a little horsepower by killing and removing unused MCE2k5
>specific processes such as the eh*exe's that loading at boot.
>
>I was not able to get used to the MCE interface early on so back-stepped to
>using the OEM Nvidia driver's capability to send out the full screen overlay
>to S-Video or VGA out. This resulted in essentially an XP SP2 PC with a
>Windows Media Player always opened and maximized while ALT+TABing to do
>other tasks like browse and read e-mail (on the monitor not the HD video
>display.)
>
>In the subsequent year all additional codecs for both encoding and decoding
>video and audio were evaled and purchased with the stability and useability
>of WMP top priority. Everything is a direct show filter or a third party
>splitter and a direct show filter. Some are not ready for Vista (yet?) and a
>few are not planning to upgrade to Vista. My "remote" is a wireless game
>controller with programmable buttons and "Magic Mouse" capability. It was
>designed to plays PC games that normally need a keyboard using a game
>controller. You program for example joystick and hat to control the mouse
>and assign buttons to things like Enter and Shift+F10.
>
>Since I'm doing a lot more video and audio editing and conversion I'd like
>to regain even a little horsepower by killing and removing unused MCE
>specific processes such as all the eh*exe's loading at startup. Also I want
>to kill the extender service that comes back all the time like bad chilli.
>
>Anyone done this or have any suggestions on how to proceed. It's an HP box
>which means installing only XPSP2 is not possible since I get just a
>recovery image not an OS disk. HP is understandably unwilling to help.
>Everything works great, most stable and productive PC I have ever had,
>except for the Media Center component, and I'm just wanting to free up
>cycles.
With a modern PC those background services are going to be a trivial load on the
system particularly
if you aren't actually using any of the features of MCE. However if you really
want to stop them
then you can just set them to not start at boot time. Start>Run>services.msc
then find the 3 MCE
services Media Center Extender Service, Media Center Receiver Service & Media
Center Scheduler
Service. Right click on each in turn & highlight Properties & then change
Startup type from
Automatic to Disabled.
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Cheers
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP
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