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Hi I would like to see an option in the games area or somewhere that you choose if you are going to be playing games or not and it shuts down and starts certain programs. Or it would be nice that since it gets information from you about games we install, we could choose certain programs that we dont want shut down and other programs and rate them on how much we want to keep them to the least when we are playing games and it will shut them down if it would improve the game. Also on that It could give us an option once we get out of the game it would ask if we want to start everything back up. Also for things hat arnt shut down, this is mainly for IM's, it would stop all notifications and set us as busy in ims or something if we dont set them to shut down.
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Hi I would like to see an option in the games area or somewhere that you choose if you are going to be playing games or not and it shuts down and starts certain programs. Or it would be nice that since it gets information from you about games we install, we could choose certain programs that we dont want shut down and other programs and rate them on how much we want to keep them to the least when we are playing games and it will shut them down if it would improve the game. Also on that It could give us an option once we get out of the game it would ask if we want to start everything back up. Also for things hat arnt shut down, this is mainly for IM's, it would stop all notifications and set us as busy in ims or something if we dont set them to shut down.
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A feature along those lines was already announced ~year ago for Vista.
Whether it will also put you away on IM - not quite sure. IM devs use many ways to detect if user is idle, new API to create a common ground for communicating the user intent between OS and apps might be needed, or some hackery..
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Hi I would like to see an option in the games area or somewhere that you choose if you are going to be playing games or not and it shuts down and starts certain programs. Or it would be nice that since it gets information from you about games we install, we could choose certain programs that we dont want shut down and other programs and rate them on how much we want to keep them to the least when we are playing games and it will shut them down if it would improve the game. Also on that It could give us an option once we get out of the game it would ask if we want to start everything back up. Also for things hat arnt shut down, this is mainly for IM's, it would stop all notifications and set us as busy in ims or something if we dont set them to shut down.
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