How to set up account with limited services running?

[Nolonemo]

Windows XP Pro, SP2 is the OS

Since my T22 when playing DVDs occasionally skips in high-information scenes, I thought I would set up a user account with the minimum amount of stuff running in the background (ZoneAlarm, AVG antivirus, Spybot SD, other nero elby and adobe services, eg) so as to free up as much memory and CPU capacity as possible.

But I found that if I create the new account and use MSCONFIG to edit what runs on startup, that profile is applied to all accounts, and I want that stuff running most of the time (especially ZoneAlarm and AVG).

Anyone know how to accomplish what I want to do?

Thanks

[hkhalil]

Hi nolonemo,

If I understand you right; you want to have a user account which you use when playing DVDs. This account would have the bare minimum running (just AV and stuff).

Most of what loads is done at startup. If there's no user logged in, then it just runs as SYSTEM. Maybe whatever needs doing has to be done at log-on.

There are probably applications out there that do this sort of thing. Perhaps some sort of script that runs for just one user, shutting down the apps you don't want running ?

hope this helps, hkhalil

[smugiri]

You might have the DVD drive in PIO mode. Try switching to DMA. Read this for instructions. This post on rec.video.desktop also gives some suggestions including turning off hardware accelaration and reducing resolution / depth among other things.

[GomJabbar]

If you are brave, you can accomplish this through editing the registry.

If not, you might want to try the following tool. I haven't tried it, so I can't comment on it's performance or suitablility to the task, but it does seem to be what you are looking for.

Startup Control Panel