Re: Modifying the programs that run when I start Windows

From: Ken Blake (kblake_at_this.is.an.invalid.domain)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 10:59:56 -0700

In news:4F429273-AC9A-4EC8-AA55-74D2FB42E88C@microsoft.com,
Whitney <Whitney@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:

>I think I have too many programs that run in the background when
>I run
> my computer. I think this is slowing my computer down. How do
> I
> modify the programs that run when I start the computer? I'd
> like to
> disable some of them so my computer will run faster.

Despite what many people tell you, you should be concerned, not
with how many of these programs you run, but which. Some of them
can hurt performance severely, but others have no effect on
performance.
On each program you don't want to start automatically, check its
Options to see if it has the choice not to start. Many can easily
and best be stopped that way. If that doesn't work, run MSCONFIG
from the Start | Run line, and on the Startup tab, uncheck the
programs you don't want to start automatically.

Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you
should do is determine what each program is, what its value is to
you, and what the cost in performance is of its running all the
time. You can get more information about these with at
http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html. If you can't find it
there, try google searches and ask about specifics here.

Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent
informed decision about what you want to keep and what you want
to get rid of. 

-- 
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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