Improved game performance

USE THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK

The thread from the ESF is here

Acording to testing, this gives a 5 - 30 FPS (Frames Per Second) boost

This was not made by me!, it was made compiled by:
Vacuus (From ESF)
With aditional help from
Dr.Nick and Mattie (from computing.net) and Tweakxp.com.

Aditional information was provided by Timeslip
Annoying questions were asked by me (Yacoby) and fallen

To read more about creating .bat files, look HERE

Copy this into a text file and save it as a .bat in your morrowind folder (more infomation below)

@ECHO OFF
echo.
echo Stopping all unnescarry processes and services...
echo.
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
taskkill /F /im mysqld-nt.exe
taskkill /im ctfmon.exe
NET STOP "Alerter"
NET STOP "Automatic Updates"
NET STOP "ClipBook"
NET STOP "Fast User Switching Compatibility"
NET STOP "Indexing Service"
NET STOP "Messenger"
NET STOP "MS Sofware Shadow Copy Provider"
NET STOP "Help and Support"
NET STOP "Volume Shadow Copy"
NET STOP "QoS RSVP"
NET STOP "MySQL"
NET STOP "Cryptographic Services"
NET STOP "Network Connections"
NET STOP "Norton AntiVirus Auto Protect Service"
NET STOP "Print Spooler"
NET STOP "Protected Storage"
NET STOP "Remote Access Auto Connection Manager"
NET STOP "Shell Hardware Detection
NET STOP "Symantec Event Manager"
NET STOP "Task Scheduler"
NET STOP "Themes"
NET STOP "Windows Management Instrumentation"
NET STOP "Windows Time"
echo.
echo Starting Morrowind...
start /w .\Morrowind Launcher.exe
echo.
echo Morrowind finished...
echo.
echo Re-starting applications...
pause
echo.
START explorer.exe
START"C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\bin\mysqld-nt.exe"
START ctfmon.exe
NET START "Alerter"
NET START "Automatic Updates"
NET START "ClipBook"
NET START "Fast User Switching Compatibility"
NET START "Indexing Service"
NET START "Messenger"
NET START "MS Sofware Shadow Copy Provider"
NET START "Help and Support"
NET START "Volume Shadow Copy"
NET START "QoS RSVP"
NET START "MySQL"
NET START "Cryptographic Services"
NET START "Network Connections"
NET START "Norton AntiVirus Auto Protect Service"
NET START "Print Spooler"
NET START "Protected Storage"
NET START "Remote Access Auto Connection Manager"
NET START "Shell Hardware Detection
NET START "Symantec Event Manager"
NET START "Task Scheduler"
NET START "Themes"
NET START "Windows Management Instrumentation"
NET START "Windows Time"
echo.
echo Finished re-loading Windows,
pause
exit

Make sure you save this file as a BAT file in your Morrowind directory, otherwise it won't work . (it will complain about Morrowind Launcher.exe)
Now create a shortcut to this file on your desktop (for convenience), to do this, right-click on your desktop & select new->shortcut.
Thats it! Just run the file when you want to play Morrowind.

EXPLANATION:
Basically what this file does is stop all processes/services specified within the file, until the user exits Morrowind & presses a key.

The syntax for stopping processes are:
taskkill /p1 /p2 /p3
Where P1, P2, and P3 are the 'switches' used.
The /F switch will force the process mentioned to stop immediantly, where as the /im switch will tell Windows which process to stop. You can see what processes are running by pressing ctrl+alt+del, and clicking on the processes tab.

Starting an application is even easier, just use the start command, followed by the apps name, You should know, however that all non-system apps (i.e apps not found within the c:\windows\system32\ folder) will need their full path specified.

To stop/start a service:
Simply use the NET STOP or NET START commands, and specify the exact service name within quotes, after the command. A list of installed services can be found by clicking on start->run (or press the wiindows key+R on your keyboard) and typing in services.msc.

Find a aplication in there that you want to stop, then in the .bat file where all the NET STOPs are
NET STOP "Program"

and where all the NET STARTs are type
NET START "Program"

Where "program" is the aplication you want to stop

To make it run 3rd party programs (like morrowind enhanced) rather than just starting up morrowind

Change:
start /w .\Morrowind Launcher.exe
to:
start /w .\xxxxxx.exe
(where xxxxxx is the programs name)

You can also run other games using this methord, but it will only have an effect if they are CPU intensive