Hi all, is it possible to only activate the ad aware service only when ad aware is running? At the moment it is taking up 27Mb of RAM, not a lot i know but i dont see the need to have programs running if they are not needed. Thanks.

We have made some improvements to the service and if you update to 7.0.2.3 the service should only take 400-800K of RAM when Ad-Aware 2007 is not running.

Regards, Tobias

still i agree with the tread starter that even if its 700k (or less) i prefer not to have extra services or tasks running

solution:

leave service how it is = DO NOT remove it with msconfig or alike !

#1 create a bat file and call it (like) stop.bat:

Net Stop "Ad-AWare 2007 Service"

#2 create a bat file and call it (like) adaware-start.bat

Net Start "Ad-AWare 2007 Service"
PAUSE
Net Stop "Ad-AWare 2007 Service"

#3 move your stop.bat file in to the startmenues STARTUP folder

#4 your DONE !

now when you start windows it will automatically stop and unload the service, and when you like to run ad-aware 1st start adaware-start.bat then right after your normal ad-aware shortcut and when your done and closed ad-aware press space on the doswindow witch will remove service again and close the dos window

alternatively you can create the adaware-start.bat file with the shortcut integrated so its a 1 click thing:

Net Start "Ad-AWare 2007 Service"
"C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware 2007\Ad-Aware2007.exe"
Net Stop "Ad-AWare 2007 Service"

where note that the location of the Ad-Aware2007.exe has to correspond with your location on your harddrive(s)

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if you do not know what a bat file is : a bat file is a normal .txt text-file where the file extension is renamed from .txt to .bat