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quick control of your F@H service

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Athlex

Golden Member
Hi All,
I've been running the F@H GPU client for a while and while it's much more stable than in the X1900 days, it doesn't run as transparently as I'd like. If the GPU service is running, games tend to be choppy and some video files will hang my computer. The solution to this for me was to just pause the GPU service and resume it when I was done with the GPU-intensive program.

Normally to get to that setting you have to load the services snap-in for the windows management console (services.msc), find the F@H service and pause/stop it. This works fine but I'm not a fan of the desktop rodentia so I like doing stuff with the command prompt. The same action can be done with the net command. eg:
net pause Folding@home-GPU-[2]
net continue Folding@home-GPU-[2]
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...which is a lot to type. So the other thing I did was to rename the service to simply GPU. This can be done using regedit. Find the 'DisplayName' string in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Folding@home-GPU-[2] and change it to GPU and you're all set (may require a restart)

Now I can control it the service with
net pause gpu
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This could be further boiled down if you put that command into a batch file. I also make a point to leave my command prompt open after I pause so I remember to resume it when I'm done with the game. 🙂

Hope this isn't a repost, but I'm sure there's someone here who could use this. In fact I'm sure there's a better way than what I've described. Anyone? 🙂
 
That's so troublesome....

You could just drag a shortcut to the Services window into the Windows Quick Launch area.
 
Limited appeal, true (ok, maybe I'm the only one 🙂)... I just prefer it because it's mouse-free. A command-line option also allows the command to be added to a batch file that can pause the service, launch a game, and then resume the service automatically.

I did shorten it further so no need for a command prompt. I put the command into a batch file:
net %1 gpuservicename
@pause
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and made 2 shortcuts to the batch file adding the "pause" and "continue" parameters to the target line in each shrtcut's properties page. Then just added keyboard shortcuts (like CTRL-ALT-R for run, CTRL-ALT-P for pause). Now when I hit the shortcut key, it'll just pop up a window that reports the status of the service and goes away.
 
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