New to Vista. I understand there's some way (built into Vista) to determine
or discontinue certain startup applications in Vista. I've installed some
software that keeps loading something when I boot up and I want to eliminate
it because my Vista load time is dropping quite a bit.

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 06:44:01 -0700, "Steve Turner"
wrote:

New to Vista. I understand there's some way (built into Vista) to determine
or discontinue certain startup applications in Vista. I've installed some
software that keeps loading something when I boot up and I want to eliminate
it because my Vista load time is dropping quite a bit.


On each program you don't want to start automatically, check its
Options to see if it has the choice not to start (make sure you
actually choose the option not to run it, not just a "don't show icon"
option). 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.

However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose of
running the minimum number of programs. 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.

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 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.


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Ken Blake, MVP;850750 Wrote:
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 06:44:01 -0700, "Steve Turner"
stevezygote@xxxxxx wrote:

New to Vista. I understand there's some way (built into Vista) to
determine
or discontinue certain startup applications in Vista. I've installed
some
software that keeps loading something when I boot up and I want to
eliminate
it because my Vista load time is dropping quite a bit.


On each program you don't want to start automatically, check its
Options to see if it has the choice not to start (make sure you
actually choose the option not to run it, not just a "don't show
icon"
option). 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.

However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose of
running the minimum number of programs. 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.

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 at
'CastleCops® - StartupList' (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 Desktop Experience
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Hello Steve,

You may also like to have a look at this tutorial

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/79...e-disable.html

Hope it helps

SIW2


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SIW2

This may also help make your PC faster!

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/...sable_1.htm l


tx, av


"Steve Turner" wrote in message
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New to Vista. I understand there's some way (built into Vista) to
determine or discontinue certain startup applications in Vista. I've
installed some software that keeps loading something when I boot up and I
want to eliminate it because my Vista load time is dropping quite a bit.

If you can't find where the program is starting using simple tools like
WinPatrol then try AutoRuns. There's so many ways to load up a program
during boot that it will make your head spin.


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One can always use the inbuilt MSCONFIG tool to disable startups or try
freeware WinPatrol which is very easy to use.


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HappyAndyK;852894 Wrote:
One can always use the inbuilt MSCONFIG tool to disable startups or try
freeware WinPatrol which is very easy to use.


That's what I thought too until I looked at AutoRuns. Take a look for
yourself and
you'll see it's nearly impossible to control startups manually.
There's too many holes.


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MilesAhead

"How come we don't know the I.Q. of the guy who invented the test?"

Type MSCONFIG on search at start button and go to startup tab and chose
the programs that you want to disable..


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