Re: Streamline startup?
From: Kelly (kelly_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/14/04
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 00:54:22 -0500
True, but Nv = NVIDIA
-- All the Best, Kelly Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP 2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award Troubleshooting Windows XP http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm "William Pine" <wpine@comcast.net> wrote in message news:%231sEhsTUEHA.3976@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... > Kelly, > > Actually, I kind of have to disagree about being able to figure out what a > program is from the name or path. At my level of computer knowledge, at > least as to many startup items, I can't figure out enough to decide > whether > to let it load at startup. > > For example, Startup Item: NvCpl, Command: RUNDLL32.EXE > C:\WINDOWS\System32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup? It initializes the clock and > memory settings on nVidia based graphics cards and should be enabled to > load > at startup if you overclock your card. Darned if I know how I could have > known that from the name or path. Especially, in my case, because it > appeared in the list of startup items right under and having some > similarity > in letters to Norton Antivirus startup items, which were obviously > identified by their names and clearly important to leave enabled. > > To give credit where credit is due, I found the answers from a link > contained in a link in the 6/12/04 posting by MGGP in response to a > question > about spyware. It led me to a terrific list of abbreviations used for > startup items with explanations of what each item does and a note whether > to > enable or disable it based on how you use your computer. > > http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php > > "Kelly" <kelly@mvps.org> wrote in message > news:eKzf3yRUEHA.3596@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... >> Hi Bill, >> >> Actually there really isn't much needed at all for Startup, these are > mostly >> preferences and boss hog programs. As for knowing what they are, most >> can >> be figured out by looking at the name and/or path. >> >> -- >> All the Best, >> Kelly >> >> Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP >> 2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award >> >> Troubleshooting Windows XP >> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com >> >> Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! >> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm >> >> >> "William Pine" <wpine@comcast.net> wrote in message >> news:%23f6ZluRUEHA.2564@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... >> >I would like to accellerate the speed of my computer's startup. I > suspect >> > lots of stuff is loading on startup that needn't, but I don't know how > to >> > determine the necessary from the unnecessary. >> > >> > Runing msconfig to look at what loads on startup isn't helpful, given > that >> > I >> > don't understand the abbreviations in the lists of Startup Items, >> > Commands, >> > and Locations that appear under System Configuration Utility startup > tab. >> > >> > Does anyone know a reference source of unabbreviated names for file > types >> > and application names of the sort of things that load when a computer >> > starts? >> > >> > Does anyone know a better way to figure out what need not load on > startup >> > than disabling items one at a time and finding out what happens? This >> > seems >> > like at the least an annoying, and possibly worse, way to find out >> > something >> > must load on startup. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Bill >> > wpine@comcast.net >> > >> > >> >> > >
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