Msconfig

[Gandalf]

I would like to cut-down on the Start up time of my comp and keep the number of programs running in the background at a minimal...but I dont know which ones I can turn off in msconfig.

Here is part of the STARTUP menu...if you can read it....

[turd]

this is something u have to decide on, I would dump the two scheduling agents, the system restore, PC health and i dont know what the web hance thing is, and do u really need that timesync program. but again some folks will tell u that dumping the restore and health and scheduling is not that good a thing, and may cause u problems

[eh?]

In windows98 you colud add "bootdelay=0" i think to the boot.ini, i think thats the file but imnot sure... that way at the starting windows screen it sit there so long.

[blebs99]

Webhancer and Timesink will eat you up on resources. Webhancer is spyware that alters your Winsock and can cause connection problems down the road.
You may not be able to disable those and have a functioning computer. You can try it and see, if not, re enable them and reboot.

The other thing to disable is LoadQM. It is for MSN Messenger and as far as I can see, it's not needed. It doesn't affect the functioning of the program at all.

[Gandalf]

Any others that you know of that I could dump?

[blebs99]

I think you pretty well have everything except those 3 I mentioned. You could dump more, but if security is an issue, I'd leave the rest alone.

[Gandalf]

What other ones could I dump?

[Monaco]

wow- I've never seen a list that long before. I have a total of 5 things in mine- registry scanner, taskmon, systray, 2 entries for NVmax and LoadPowerProfile, and I think that's to long!

If I were you, I would ditch ALL of them except systray then add back in the ones you need. Also, I'd at least grab a copy of Ad-Aware- I see at least a couple of spywares in there, like blebs99 said- AW will safely remove them.

I like my system to boot as clean as possible- when I need a program, I'll run it. I don't like stuff loading up at every boot "just-in-case", I never end up using even half of them and it's just a waste of system resources.

[Dissolved]

turing off ur virus scan will really speed up ur boot, and u can shut off *statemangr

[_Will_]

Yikes! Look what I found!

[Dissolved]

some kind of virus?

[Monaco]

don't sweat that, I have it too- that's the runner for your video card settings, OC, etc.

[Gandalf]

I just got Ad-Aware 5.62 and it is AWESOME......but you said that you only had 5 things in your startup list.......how do you get rid of some of them?

[Monaco]

yah ain't Ad Aware great? It's almost scary how much spyware it catches on the first run thru!:D

If you just want to turn it off, you can uncheck it's box- but if you want to be a total nerd geek like me, you will go into your registry and remove the entries so they don't even show up in the list!:) Doesn't always work, some programs will die if you remove a key. But usually it's ok. Key location varies on program, of course.

Also I reformat and reinstall my systems sort of regularly, if I didn't I'd get a ton of stuff start to pile up in there I bet.:D