Re: SLOOOOwww startup

Use services.msc *NOT* msconfig.exe!

Start | Run | Type: services.msc | Click OK
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Why can't I use msconfig to change my services?

The reason is because with msconfig and Hardware Profiles, you can disable
services that may be vital to boot your system. With the management console
(services.msc) you cannot. Also, msconfig, while unchecking the box, is
disabling the service.

The "Disable All" button also scares me. It should not even be there as no
reason exists to justify disabling "everything."
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from...
Why can't I use msconfig to change my services?
http://web.archive.org/web/20041128011231/www.blackviper.com/AskBV/XP25.htm

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:1165248289.667802.4840@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
riverman <myronbuck@xxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Malke wrote:
riverman wrote:

It seems like my computer takes longer and longer to start up. I
assume that this is because there are a bunch of applications that are
starting up when I start up the computer, and are running
(needlessly?) in the background.

Is there some simple way to see why the computer takes so long to get
started, and to determine what background programs are necessary, and
which are just clogging up the arteries?

Simple? I don't know; it depends on what you mean by "simple". For slow
startups, the normal troubleshooting path is to first make sure the
computer is completely virus/malware-free and then if it is, do
clean-boot troubleshooting to determine what is running at startup.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP -
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560

Clean boot in Windows XP - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353
Clean-boot advanced troubleshooting in Windows XP -

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316434

Malke
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Thanks, Malke: the msconfig utility is just what I was looking for. How
do I know which services and startup programs (and drivers) I
want/need? Some of them I can tell...like I don't want Skype to
initialize on startup. But there are others that I am not at all
certain what they are, or what impact they have, like all those VAIO
integrated servers and schedulers. I remember seeing somewhere once
that I want to keep the Acrobat Gamma loader in the startup folder, but
how do I know about everything else? Trial and error? I'd hate to
dismantle something that would let my virus protection down or
something, and cause more trouble than help.

--riverman
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