Restricting programs/applications for one user account?

[PetMetroid]

For more than a half a year I have designated one user account for my videogames running them under a front end called GameEx. For the longest time, when playing games, I have been bothered by popups and various programs which interrupt my game play. I have been trying to figure out if I can disable unneeded tasks, applications, and programs ONLY when using this user account. A plain example would be disabling the explorer (or everything) and running only the programs I want (like the front end, some scripts, maybe the virus software if I can disable updates and popups.) Basically I want a VERY minimal startup process for ONE user account that will run somewhere between five and ten, at most, of the applications I need. Does anyone know how to do this or if this is possible?
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[MasterHD]

When logged into the "gaming" user account, try typing "msconfig" under start/run and look at all your startup programs. I think each user profile in Windows has it's own unique startup options, but I'm not entirely sure because it does control safe mode, diagnostic options etc. If not, then the changes you make may affect all Windows accounts, but it's worth a shot (you can easily revert the changes).
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[PetMetroid]

Thanks for responding. No, I tried this. When I log into another account, it tells me that the settings were changed.
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[shawn]

If the games offline then one thing you can do is to right click on the symbol that shows your connected online and click disable for your ethernet card and just reenable it in network connections when your done gaming. Shut off or remove most update programs in the taskbar and while I'm on this remove most if not all programs that don't need to be there to run from the taskbar and quicklaunch, I hate that quicklaunch taskbar, I never use it ever.

Also go to NONAGS.com and get a freeware process checker and a process killer to find out what's really running that windows task manager won't do right. Hope some of this helps out.

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[maq112k2]

> Thanks for responding. No, I tried this. When I log into
> another account, it tells me that the settings were changed.
Locate all the names of the processes you don't want starting up with the account. Create a batch file with lines in it like:

<font face="Courier New">@echo off
tskill explorer.exe
tskill aim6.exe
tskill stupidprocess.exe</font>

And put it in your startup folder in the start menu. Granted, it won't kill the processes before they start up, but you never have to manually kill them again!
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[PZYR0]

maq112k2- good idea
i'll have to try this THANK YOU