Minimize my services

26 Jun, 2006  software

We have pretty nice machines machines at work to handle the varied development that we need to do at any given time. We all run Sql Server 2000 or 2005 locally for various projects, so it helps to have a beefy machine to run that stuff and also have a responsive system for the other stuff you inevitably run.

Even so, I still hate having extraneous services running when I don’t need them. So I don’t have Sql 2000 or 2005 set to start when my machine starts up, rather, I have 6 batch files that sit on my desktop:

  • Start Sql 2000.bat
  • Stop Sql 2000.bat
  • Restart Sql 2000.bat
  • Start Sql 2005.bat
  • Stop Sql 2005.bat
  • Restart Sql 2005.bat

The intent of these 6 files are obvious, it just gives me a shortcut to start and stop these services without having to open the services manager. It’s also nice because I can stop extra related services that I don’t need, for instance when I stop sql 2005, I also stop the MSDTC and SqlBrowser services and I start them back up only when I start sql 2005 back up. This way I can minimize the junk thats slowing me down :)

On a slight tangent, in spite of my memory saving, I still have the same problems that John Papa has with Resharper. It was taking me way too long to type with Resharper installed so I had to remove it. I just assumed that my experience was the same as everyone else, because I didn’t have any weird environment setup. Hopefully they find the cause and I can give it another try :)

3 Comments

  1. David Stennett said,

    Wrote on June 27, 2006 @ 7:42 am

    Hello Ben:

    What exactly is your problem with ReSharper? Just a slow start-up time? What hardware are you using? How big is your project?

    Thanks!

    David Stennett
    JetBrains (makers of ReSharper)

  2. ben said,

    Wrote on June 27, 2006 @ 9:17 am

    Hi David, the last time I tried out resharpter was beta 2, so there may be improvements that I havent used yet. My problems were that when I would type, it would take a few seconds for the intellisense to display (whereas the VS 2005 intellisense displays nearly immediately). Because of the improved intellisense in VS 2005, the intellisense displays more frequently that in 2003, so that means that I was running into a delay more frequently as well.

    The hardware is a 3 GHz pentium4, 1 GB ram (now 2 GB), with a decent video card (not sure of the exact specs).

  3. David Stennett said,

    Wrote on June 29, 2006 @ 8:19 am

    Well, you may want to try out the latest build of ReSharper — found:

    http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/Download

    I know some people had problems, but most of those issues have been resolved. If you find the time to test again, and run into the same issue, please let me know.

    Best!

    David Stennett
    JetBrains

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