Does some sort of Windows 'profile' switcher exist?

[auricle74]

Not sure if this exists but I'm asking in case one of you clever peeps know.

I use my PC both for gaming and music creation and as I use a Reverb G2 these two tasks need completely different Windows setups. For music, I need to install PACE drivers for iloked plugins, elicenser drivers, and other software that's constantly running in the background. All of those things take up CPU cycles and when playing Elite on the G2, really need to be turned off.

I'm looking for some sort of management software where I can set up two different profiles - one for music where I can turn on all these background services and another for VR gaming where I can turn them (and probably other services) off. Switching off services one at a time is really cumbersome.

Do you know if such a thing exists? Or is there another recommended way of doing it?

Thank you!

 

[Alec Turner]

For Windows services specifically you can use a DOS batch script with the commands ..

net stop <service name>

.. and ..

net start <service name>

.. to stop and start various services. I have desktop shortcuts to two such scripts to start and stop the Oculus software so I can basically turn the Oculus off completely when I'm not using it. In this case the <service name> is "OVRService". With the right commands you can do all sorts of other things in these batch scripts too. For example there's a utility called "nircmd.exe" which provides all kinds of functionality such as selecting default audio devices (e.g. so my Oculus scripts can switch between my headset audio and my desktop audio).