Q: How to boot up your computer faster by limiting the start up programs
A: We have done it like this
Almost every time when a new program is installed it looks like it wants to be running before
the other ones.What a great competition in cyber world! Well for us ,computer people,it means
we will have to wait till they start up every time when we boot up our PC.But we do not need
all programs to be running at start up .
the other ones.What a great competition in cyber world! Well for us ,computer people,it means
we will have to wait till they start up every time when we boot up our PC.But we do not need
all programs to be running at start up .
1/ Click on Start button then click Run and type msconfig into the window
2/ Now click OK and in the following window select the Startup tab
These are the programs that automatically start every time when you switch on your PC.
3/Now you can uncheck all the unwanted programs which ones you do not need at the startup.
Do not uncheck important ones like your antivirus or security software etc.
3/Now you can uncheck all the unwanted programs which ones you do not need at the startup.
Do not uncheck important ones like your antivirus or security software etc.
Restart your PC to see the difference,your PC will now boot faster.
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Well there is another way to do this by using some nice little utilities called startup managers.
We can download them from the web.
We can download them from the web.
One nice example is called WhatInStartup. This utility displays the list of all applications
that are loaded automatically when Windows starts up. For each application, the following information
is displayed: Startup Type (Registry/Startup Folder), Command-Line String, Product Name, File Version,
Company Name, Location in the Registry or file system, and more.
that are loaded automatically when Windows starts up. For each application, the following information
is displayed: Startup Type (Registry/Startup Folder), Command-Line String, Product Name, File Version,
Company Name, Location in the Registry or file system, and more.
Here is a screen shot from it:
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And if you really want something more sophisticated and want to control a lot of details
there is one program called Codestarter.
As a primary purpose, Starter allows one to view and manage all the programs that are
starting automatically whenever operating system is loading. It enumerates all the hidden registry
entries, startup folders' items and some of the initialization files, so that the user could choose
to temporarily disable selected entries, edit them, create new, or delete them permanently.
Secondary purpose is to list all the running processes with possibility to view extended process'
information (such as used DLLs, memory usage, thread count, priorities etc.), and to terminate
selected process.
Starter is a real Freeware and is not crippled in any way among the similar products.
The user interface is pretty simple and has a lot of options that are self-explanatory.
Read more at :
there is one program called Codestarter.
As a primary purpose, Starter allows one to view and manage all the programs that are
starting automatically whenever operating system is loading. It enumerates all the hidden registry
entries, startup folders' items and some of the initialization files, so that the user could choose
to temporarily disable selected entries, edit them, create new, or delete them permanently.
Secondary purpose is to list all the running processes with possibility to view extended process'
information (such as used DLLs, memory usage, thread count, priorities etc.), and to terminate
selected process.
Starter is a real Freeware and is not crippled in any way among the similar products.
The user interface is pretty simple and has a lot of options that are self-explanatory.
Read more at :
