Enabling On-Demand Boost temporarily turns off background services that use system resources.
By turning off unnecessary items, more resources are available for specialized uses such as gaming, streaming, and more.
The large button in the center of the panel enables On-Demand Boost. Below this button, select Low or High boost to decide how aggressively services are turned off. Low leaves more services enabled, while High boosts speed and power maximally by turning off more services.
On-Demand Boost now allows you to choose from a list which services you want to temporarily disable for your power sessions.
To leave a service enabled while running On-Demand Boost, uncheck the service in the On-Demand Boost services list. Your preferences are saved even after you refresh the list. Upon system reboot, all services will default to their original settings.
When you are ready, enable On-Demand Boost to scan for unnecessary items.
When the scan completes, a list of unnecessary services appears, with an indicator for each that it has been Stopped.
The Refresh List function gives you an up-to-the-minute status of which services are currently running or stopped.
Note that, while a system reboot is not necessary to enable or disable On-Demand Boost, On-Demand Boost will disable upon a system reboot, with previously stopped services enabled to run again.
Within the ActiveCare menu, you can opt to automatically enable On-Demand Boost whenever you have ActiveCare set to run.