Deleting obselete processes that load on start-up

[Guest]

I've not long changed my CPU and increased my memory to 1 GB, but my PC is
still pretty sluggish on start up. I havce a hunch that it is down to
numerous background processes that run on start-up that are obselete. Is
there a way of editting which processes load on start up? Or how can I delete
old ones without deleting important ones? Also, can anyone point me in the
direction of a website that lists critical windows processes???

Hope someone can help. Many thanks in advance?

 

[Gerry Cornell]

http://aumha.org/a/loads.htm

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[Donny Broome]

I use a free program called 'Autoruns' to eliminate unwanted items from
startup. You can download it for free from the author's site, here:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html . Additionally, here is
a thorough guide to Windows XP processes. You may be able to safely turn off
a few processes that you're not using: http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12


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[Daniel Crichton]

rmellison wrote on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:52:04 -0700:

I've not long changed my CPU and increased my memory to 1 GB, but my PC is
still pretty sluggish on start up. I havce a hunch that it is down to
numerous background processes that run on start-up that are obselete. Is
there a way of editting which processes load on start up? Or how can I
delete old ones without deleting important ones? Also, can anyone point me
in the direction of a website that lists critical windows processes???

Hope someone can help. Many thanks in advance?

If you have MSN Messenger autoloading and connecting at startup, start
there. So far all the PCs I've had to deal with in the past few weeks that
have appeared slow when starting up have been running the latest version of
MSN Messenger - earlier versions seemed to be fine, this new one really
slows down the system.

Dan

 

[Guest]

Thanks to all 3 for the advice. All very useful!

rmellison wrote on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:52:04 -0700:


If you have MSN Messenger autoloading and connecting at startup, start
there. So far all the PCs I've had to deal with in the past few weeks that
have appeared slow when starting up have been running the latest version of
MSN Messenger - earlier versions seemed to be fine, this new one really
slows down the system.

Dan

 

[Stan Brown]

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:19:05 -0500 from Donny Broome

I use a free program called 'Autoruns' to eliminate unwanted items from
startup. You can download it for free from the author's site, here:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html . Additionally, here is
a thorough guide to Windows XP processes.

I strongly second the recommendation.

A particularly nice feature is that you can right-click on a suspect
process to Google it.