Is there any way to fully stop/disable AppControl from running in background?
I understand that some AppControl services must run to log events on background. But I had disabled run on Windows startup, because I don´t need to check events everytime. And even after I start computer, there are AppControl processes running and taking almost 200MB of memory.
It will be great to choose to fully quit AppControl and its services (of course without history).
Thanks for your feedback. You can quit our UI in the top right cog icon menu, but that leaves you with the services because we need them to keep track of historical data.
I guess we could make something like a “live” mode that’s just like task manager with no history. We also considered a “pause” mode that does something like you are suggesting where everything is just stopped?
Can you tell me more about the purpose of your suggestion? You want to be able to use 100% of your resources temporarily, so every AppControl service is stopped for that temporary situation? Or, do you prefer we just be a live task manager with no history that starts/stops like the normal task manager with no history at all?
Please note we also have the performance mode in settings that uses less resources. Please click our top right cog icon to find it. On top of this we’re working on some changes that will improve our resource usage considerably.
I understand that services are needed for collecting data and checking history.
I don´t need to check running processes every time I turn on computer - especially when I am doing some resource intensive work.
Some kind of option to fully pause/stop everything until you open AppControl again. And also fully disable running process on startup.
Yes, it will be then like task manager, but still better.
A pause service would be great.
This way we do not get constant notifications when doing critical work with programs we already know.
I value the program ability to let me know what is going on, specially when installing new software. But sometimes I wish I could just pause all notifications and history?
I think a simple “Pause service” will be perfect, this way you can just press that button and the service will get paused, no notification, no history but can be resumed at will easily from the UI.
Thanks everyone for your feedback on a “pause service” option.
Meanwhile, please remember if your request is due to our notifications, just go to the “Alerts” tab and turn on “do not disturb” and then you can go to settings to further set the exact time you want to set “do not disturb” to.
I also get that this may not be what you are requesting, but I wanted to post it in case others reading this thread in the future are aware of this option. You can also simply turn this on by right clicking our tray icon at the bottom right in Windows.
I made an account just to reply and say that this is a must have feature for me before I install this. If I can’t fully quit the application or pause background services, it’s definitely not getting installed on my machine.
@thatsanicehat thanks, I made this hat myself.
Yes, we are considering adding that mode. We discussed it a bit on our Discord also, but I guess the problem is if we can’t keep any history a lot of our usefulness is lost. If people continue to ask for that then we’ll consider adding it. Thanks for your feedback.
If it helps, I disagree! I think app compatibility (VirtualBox, for example, if that continues to be a problem on their end), benchmarking, and 4k screen recording/editing are all good reasons to pause a background service for a short time without removing the usefulness of the app day-to-day. Maybe a 15 minute/1 hour/4 hour snooze option would help y’all feel better about it, but I think it’s extremely important to allow the user control full control over long-running apps and services like this.
FWIW: I did end up installing it, and I do love it; great work here.
Even without background collecting to history, it´ll still be better than Windows Task Manager.
But I think there should be some options to pause/stop background services. Speaking for myself, I don´t like when I don´t have control what is starting and running on background of my PC without possibility to stop it.
Thanks everyone! We will definitely consider how to implement this.
@and @thatsanicehat @bigframedigital So here is a problem with this idea… Our team found if we implement this, then all disabled apps can then run with no issues, and the logic on this makes total sense because our services are all stopped and disabled.
This problem we didn’t consider is why we stopped implementing this “pause” idea. I guess we could still implement the idea, but then put a big warning before it’s on? “By pausing, all disabled apps will be able to start since AppControl will no longer be running.”
Then, when you unpause you’d probably have to look at the disable list and kill the apps that started up again?
That’s a pretty fair warning I would say.
Basically the “pause” will mean the program will cease controlling the Apps and since the control is embedded on the App name itself “AppControl” it is only logical that you think this.
I would say the pause is still a good idea with a big warning saying “App control will cease to control all apps and messages and explaining to the user that when AppControl resumes it’s the user responsability to check all the executed Apps”
I don’t think anyone will mind that since you are alerting us about this behavior.
I have an idea. Why don’t you turn this into a feature?
Why don’t you develop 2 modes of operation for AppControl
Then you can explain that “switching” between basic to full will not invalidate the Apps already executed and that it is the user responsability to either remove them or keep them as they were.
Then you create a button in the UI that allows the user to “Switch” between one mode or the other.
Then you don’t need a warning, you specifically state what each mode does and let the user use the App however they see fit.
I know for sure I will use the App this way and will “switch” between one mode or the other for sure.
For testing, I make sure to “switch to Monitor Only” and when using the PC regularly, I can switch back to the defaul AppControl mode.
What do you think?
We have also considered something like that, or even two separate apps, but we are quite small and having to test two apps for quality assurance for two apps isn’t really reasonable right now. Maybe two modes could be possible though as you suggest, we will keep thinking.
The easiest solution would probably be to just warn about all disabled apps becoming enabled… and if the user wants to take that risk and it’s not a big problem then he can use the “pause” mode.
