Re: Lots of stuff loading at start-up - questions

From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 01:13:41 -0400

ccApp = Norton
pptd40nt = PerfectDisk
nwiz = Nvidia
NvCpl = Nvidia

Don't go around disabling things willy nilly. You may lock yourself out of
your system! 

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Regards:
Richard Urban
aka  Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
"Big Mac" <no-email-in-usenet@zzz.org> wrote in message 
news:8a14801hvq6ucu40euq8qu16vj2c17t24o@4ax.com...
>I am just wondering - it seems a lot more memory is being use by my
> computer than my sons computer.  I have 1 gig of memory while he has
> 512 MB.  My computer is using about 350 MBs loaded into memory at boot
> up, while his is using about 200 MBs.  We have both "disabled" or put
> to "manual" several of the same Windows XP components that are used
> for networking and stuff.
>
> So, I am loading a lot more stuff than he is I suppose.  I do have
> more stuff than he has.
>
> * 1st question - will programs see extra memory and use more of it
> because it decides it can?
>
> Now, I'd like to know about this - I go into start\run, and type in
> "msconfig".  The end choice on the right is "start' or "startup".
> There I see what stuff loading at boot time I guess (I also see a
> couple of things loading the start\.all programs\startup - these are
> just shortcuts that start of a program - I have deleted all but
> "smartUI").
>
> * So 2nd question - how do I find out where all of these programs
> starting at boot up belong to?  I recognize a couple of them -
> "DrgToDsc" is my Roxio drag a file to here and it will burn program -
> which I never even use or will want to use.  I have 26 programs that
> are loading on boot up.  The info Window there is a fixed size.  It
> only displays the start of the path to where these programs are at - I
> just don't know.  I can find some by using search.  There is stuff in
> this startup (msconfig\startup) that seems to, on purpose, be vague.
> For example: "mxyjxxn" listed there, traced to a file called
> mxyxxn.exe in my Windows folder.  What in the heck - it is using up
> memory on start up I guess (???) , but I don't know what for.  Are all
> of those files in there 3rd party stuff?
>
> I don't recognize these: zHotkey, RxMon, Schwicon2K, SetHook, ccApp,
> ISStart, EngUtil, pptd40nt, mwsoemon, SmartUI, attask, realsched
> (something in Real Player perhaps?), nwiz, NvCpl.  Any input here is
> appreciated.
>
> * 3rd question - as can example, I have unchecked the box in front of
> Drugstores. but when I reboot - it reboots in a diagnostic mode - I
> can't figure out how to make my changes permanent - anyone?  I think I
> even logged in as Administrator and I still could save the changes as
> permanent, at lease the way I am doing it.

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