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C# How to check if a process is a windows service/process or a normal process?

TableFlipGod

TableFlipGod

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So, currently i'm coding a program that has gaming mode (it kill UN-necessary programs that cause CPU usage, ram, GPU ETC. ) it should help with fps especially on a low end system!

How would i check if it is from the OS or not?
 
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You would want to check who is running the process. If the user is SYSTEM, then don't kill it. There are a few other special system users that you don't want to kill. A good strategy might be to kill processes that are being run by the user with the username of the current account. i.e., if my windows username is simple then kill the processes whose user is simple. These programs should be ones that I either started myself or they started when I logged in (via a configuration option I set).

You may also want to do basic heuristics and check the memory and CPU usage, as there is really no point in killing processes that aren't hurting anything.
 
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