How to Disable/Enable a Batch of Services?

[Circa 3000]

Hi all,

Is there an easy way to disable and re-enable groups of services / processes in Windows 10 so that the computer can be switched between optimization 'profiles' for, say, routine office work, audio/video editing, and gaming?

I have two computers now - one for routine office work (e.g., Office suite, Quickbooks) and a dedicated audio/video editing workstation. The latter is very powerful and I'd like to use it for both jobs, but not if all those background processes (59 total), like Cortana, OneDrive, iCloud mean sacrificing resources for critical A/V work. Neither do I have the time or patience to manually disable scores of Startup apps and services each time I throw my A/V hat on.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

 

[ss202sl]

You may be able to create a batch file to stop the services, and another one to start the services back up.

 

[Math Geek]

you can use a program called autoruns to do this. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

you can disable and then re-enable tons of stuff. it won't batch them for restart like you want, but it will sort to just services and let you simply check all the ones you wish to restart. upon reboot they'll all be running again.

i don't know of any other way to disable and start a mass of services.

edit: this seems to be how to create a batch file to do what you want. looks like a lot of work to get it going but once you go it, it should be good to go. http://lifehacker.com/5645770/create-service-stopping-batch-files-to-optimize-your-pc-for-specific-tasks

might go through the effort to do this myself for a win 10 fresh install. be nice to just click and have all the stuff disabled i want to be gone. would make the constant installs i do a lot easier