MegaZone wrote: > Once upon a time Dave in Boston shaped the electrons to say... > > I usually don't run the server...but only turn it on when I need to do > > something with it......to conserve resources.
> > I also notice that a whole bunch of Tivo items load at every startup. > > (TivoDesktop.exe, TivoServer.exe, TivoNotify.cexe, TivoBeacon.exe, > > TivoTransfer.exe) > Some things seem to startup, then shut down. And there doesn't seem > to be a good way to stop them - it must be a registry setting that > triggers these. You can use StartupRun <http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/strun.html>. This is a nice little utility that shows everything that launches at startup time. If you're OK with something a little more basic, but built into Windows, you can just run msconfig. > But I believe TiVo Server is a standard Windows Service. So you > could go into 'Services' under Windows (under Administrative Tools) > and change TiVo Server from "Automatic" to "Manual", and then start > the service when you need it. Tivo Beacon is the only one that shows up in the service list, for whatever reason. If you right-click the TiVo icon in your system tray and then select properties, you can bring up the config window. Uncheck "Start the Tivo server when I log into windows" and it shouldn't start up next time. I'm not sure what all the different processes do, or if they will all be gone if you uncheck that magic box. My guess is that you'll lose TivoServer and TivoTransfer. TiVoBeacon is controlled by the services control panel. TiVoNotify seems to be the "master" process; it may still run. - Jeff > -MZ
