Running N360 v4 on a relatively new install of Windows 7 Ultimate - 64 bit. I do quite a bit of video editing and to aid in the processing power for that activity, I have historically disabled all start up items and all non MS services...and disconnected from Internet. When I try to disable the N360 service from msconfig, it remains ticked and when I reboot, N360 remains active. I can disable the firewall and AV features from that point, but still would like to have the N360 service not load at all. Any help is appreciated.
Hello okie9104
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N360 is supposed to protect and check your computer for malware including in the bootup sector. I believe if you have the ability to disable the service from starting at all, then that makes it easy for malware writers to get into a computer. I think that is like a safety feature so that malware has a harder time getting into your computer. What you are trying to do is like have no security program installed. If you can stop it from loading up, then malware writers will be able to also.
Yes, understood about the risks. Was able to stop the service under N360 v3 and Vista. Recently upgraded to Win 7 and N360 v4 and find I can't stop the service. Not at the computer with the issue now, so have got the wrong option identified, but I have also tried to untick the "tamper protection" option in N360 and then stop the service, to no avail.
The service cannot, and should not, be stopped.
If you are concerned about performance while using your application, you could manually enable silent mode to suppress all non-essential UI and all non-essential tasks, you could add the program to the quiet mode list to automatically do the suppression, and you could exclude the your application or data folders from AP file scanning.
Regards
Pieter