Aqua-Soft ForumsI'm getting some pretty crazy memory spikes. I'm using iTunes for windows, and there are two extra apps running that are causing the spikes: iPodService and iTunesHelper. I can close them and run iTunes fine, and the memory spiking goes away. Is there a way to permanatly stop them from running? I didn't see anything in the iTunes prefs.
Itunes: High Memory Usage
you can kill itunes helper in msconfig, the ipod service, im not too sure how to kill it, im still working on it.
ipodservice needs to be removed in services.msc
go to administrative tools and tehn services and then set it to disabled in the startup type...
By the way guys, this was answered in one of the itunes stickies... the help one i think...
Hope this helps
Seph
Originally posted by Seph@Nov 4 2003, 02:51 PMipodservice needs to be removed in services.msc
go to administrative tools and tehn services and then set it to disabled in the startup type...
By the way guys, this was answered in one of the itunes stickies... the help one i think...
Hope this helps
Seph
ahhh, thanks for the heads up seph, didnt see it
Okay, I've shut them both down using msconfig. In the services tab is where I disabled the iPodService. But does that disable it from running on startup?
EDIT: Ahh, thanks Seph. I'm sorry about double post, didn't realize, I searched though hehe 
they dont start in my computer... i think theyre only set to load as soon as itunes loads...
give it a go...
When you set a service as "Disabled" it will not run at all.
Even if it is called by another program, it will fail to start.
Just an FYI, when attempting to streamline your system, be careful of what services you set as disabled.
While in most cases it's pretty safe, occasionaly you will come across an obscure service that only get's called under certain conditions.
Make sure to check for dependencies before you kill or set to disabled.
I usually set those types to manual, so it only starts when called.
Expanding on rjohnstone's post.
When changing these settings a very helpful site is Black Viper's Site which has tprobably the most comprehensive list of services ive seen and why and how they run and "live in your system" making this way easy to know what you can get rid of or not...
You all prolly know about this site but its never extra to link back to such a helpful site once and again.
Cheers
Seph
Kind of off topic here. But i'm a technician at a large county hospital. I usually make sure any image we make to push over the network goes through me. I like to think of myself as a master of disabling pointless services. The site seph links to is a good reference. You'll be surprised how much faster your system runs once you've disabled 7-8 stupid pointless services. It may only be 20-30mb, but when you're at a county hospital, and some pc's only have 64mb of ram, it all adds up. Equalling less trouble ticket calls for people saying "It says i don't have enough resources".
PS, that' 64mb was very high. Our admitting/discharging and all around patient information system, is a DOS program that only requires 8mb of ram. And we sitll have Win 3.1 machines hidden throughout the hospital. Although over the past year we've ordered some 400+ new IBM Netvista XP machines. We're slowly coming into the year 2000(HEH!)
Originally posted by Seph@Nov 4 2003, 07:40 PMExpanding on rjohnstone's post.
When changing these settings a very helpful site is Black Viper's Site which has tprobably the most comprehensive list of services ive seen and why and how they run and "live in your system" making this way easy to know what you can get rid of or not...
I didn't know! Thank you very much, my man.
@ bolero, thanks for the move, sorry for the mistake!
Could you have possibly thought of a more general name for this thread? <_<
Topic renamed to reflect it's actual content.
-godpunk