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Re: Option 2: Kill Windows – Aggressive (Signature Edition) & Shutdown Problem Fixed!

This solution revises 'Signature Edition' and has no side effects! This means you can do a normal shutdown after Foobar or whatever else.

Explorer is killed and started (before and after Foobar). Windows stuff is suspended & resumed. This will work with all soundcard drivers. By killing Explorer, memory is freed. Further improvement in sound is gained.

Other changes include:

1. Under rem #1 (remark #1) provision for Process Explorer - default starts Task Manager but if you prefer Process Explorer then copy procexp.exe file to c:\ and remove 'rem ' prefix from procexp.exe line. Also add 'rem ' prefix to rem #1 & #4 taskmgr.exe lines.

2. Don't need to use pskill.exe utility

3. Under rem #4, as before, you can change your soundcard driver setup utility priority. For RME, the mixer can also be killed. For Biostar mobo, VTTimer.exe can be killed. These are done by removing 'rem ' prefix in appropriate line

Under step 5 (of option 2), use these instructions:

@echo off
rem #1 Start Task Manager
start /b C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe
rem start /b c:\procexp.exe /p:n

rem #2 Kill UI
start /b /wait c:\process.exe -k explorer.exe

rem #3 Suspend Windows
start /b /wait c:\process.exe -s smss.exe
start /b /wait c:\process.exe -s winlogon.exe

rem #4 Adjust priorities, eg. High, RealTime, BelowNormal, Low;
rem # and do housekeeping (other cleanups)
start /b /wait c:\process.exe -p taskmgr.exe Normal
rem start /b /wait c:\process.exe -p [YOUR SOUNDCARD PROCESS] AboveNormal
rem start /b /wait c:\process.exe -k hdspmix.exe
rem start /b /wait c:\process.exe -k VTTimer.exe

rem #5 Start Foobar2000
start /wait /REALTIME c:\progra~1\foobar2000\foobar2000.exe

rem #6 Resume Windows & Start UI
start /b /wait c:\process.exe -r winlogon.exe
start /b /wait c:\process.exe -r smss.exe
start /b c:\windows\explorer.exe

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