
Originally Posted by
Dave_07
I probably have way too much stuff that isn't absolutely critical on here, as regards to applications and on in the background that could conflict, i have Firewall: Zonealarm, Anti-Virus: Avast home 4.8, hard drive/cpu/graphics card temp monitoring system tray apps, system try app for my usb modem, some weird system try icon that i can't seem to get rid of called "safely remove hardware" which is to do with my modem aswell, system tray app called process guard, which acts like a firewall but for program detection instead, then there is just some background process's for my sound card, ati mom.exe thingy, and a whole load of windows related process's all of which i have googled.
however when i start up a game, i always do a task manager purge, meaning i close down all non-essential process's, and just end up with the windows process's and the firewall, but i switch the firewall to gaming mode, which means it relaxes it's settings abit.