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[Plexx]

For the gamers here who would like to give Game Booster 3 a try, please note that this application will no longer be free as of 30th of June.

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Designed for higher FPS and less lags!
Game Booster 3 is capable of delivering the best gaming experience to you even if you have an old PC. One-click to boost PC performance is not enough, Game Booster 3 also allows you to tweak your system for top PC performance. By temporarily shutting background processes and unnecessary Windows services, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor performance, Game Booster 3 concentrates every little system resource for gaming only.

Game Booster 3 is compatible with PunkBuster, Cheating-Death, VAC, and any other anti-cheat software.

Their latest released is 3.4.0, released on Apr. 28, 2012.
A beta is also available: 3.5.0

 

[Ink]

Download both and store a copy offline/cloud.

I've used this before on Windows 7, it was OK, but I'm not a PC Gamer.

 

[Plexx]

I have used since the early releases of version 2. Although a bit buggy it is handly to stop some services even if you dont do gaming (yeah I can be lazy sometimes).

Here's the version 2 video by Majorgeeks.