End It All Program???

[Betty]

Has anybody tried this program with Vista & does it work well?

Also, I'm not sure what I should shut down in the back ground. I don't want
to mess my computer up.

Thanks!

 

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[Ken Blake, MVP]

Has anybody tried this program with Vista & does it work well?

Also, I'm not sure what I should shut down in the back ground. I don't want
to mess my computer up.

I don't know whether it works with Vista, but personally I never
bother with programs like that. The reason installation programs tell
you to shut down all running programs is so that they can update a
file (for example, a shared dll) if they need to and not have the
update fail because some running program is using it.

I normally don't bother shutting down anything. If the installation
fails because a file it needs to update is in use (in practice, this
happens *very* rarely), I *then* shut down all the programs and redo
the installation. But I can't remember the last time I needed to do
that.

 

[Betty]

I don't know whether it works with Vista, but personally I never
bother with programs like that. The reason installation programs tell
you to shut down all running programs is so that they can update a
file (for example, a shared dll) if they need to and not have the
update fail because some running program is using it.

I normally don't bother shutting down anything. If the installation
fails because a file it needs to update is in use (in practice, this
happens *very* rarely), I *then* shut down all the programs and redo
the installation. But I can't remember the last time I needed to do
that.

Well, I wasn't thinking about ordinary software installation. I mainly was
concerned with games. Vista is such a resource hog, I thought if I could end
some of the background stuff, my game would play better having more memory
going to it instead of background tasks.

Betty