Slow Loading of Items in the System Tray!

[Phil Tusa]

Greetings to all ...


I have an older Dell PC P4 running at 1.7 Ghz loaded with WIN XP SP2,
60 GIG H-D and just upgraded to 1 Giga-Byte of RAM...

For about the past 6 months I have noticed the items in the system
tray are taking up to 2 to 3 minutes to completly load in the system
tray. I've noticed on other systems at work with the same type of PC
this seems to a much faster process (about 30-60 seconds)
compared to my Dell PC here at home....

The PC appears to be clean of any viruses using McaFee.

The items that are loading in the system tray are:

The Speaker Icon, Zone Alarms v6.5.737, McAfee Anti-Virus , HotSync,
TaskInfo v 6.2.3.190 and Windows Task Manager.

I've check the startup items in MSConfig and could not find anything I
could remove from the start-up tab.


Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Taha Tungekar]

Greetings to all ...

I have an older Dell PC P4 running at 1.7 Ghz loaded with WIN XP SP2,
60 GIG H-D and just upgraded to 1 Giga-Byte of RAM...

For about the past 6 months I have noticed the items in the system
tray are taking up to 2 to 3 minutes to completly load in the system
tray. I've noticed on other systems at work with the same type of PC
this seems to a much faster process (about 30-60 seconds)
compared to my Dell PC here at home....

The PC appears to be clean of any viruses using McaFee.

The items that are loading in the system tray are:

The Speaker Icon, Zone Alarms v6.5.737, McAfee Anti-Virus , HotSync,
TaskInfo v 6.2.3.190 and Windows Task Manager.

I've check the startup items in MSConfig and could not find anything I
could remove from the start-up tab.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Phil,

Most of the time, not all the software loading at startup is in the
system tray or even msconfig. From personal experience I have also
noticed that sometimes, there are services installed on your computer
which can slow down your computer (during startup) to a trickle. You
can see the list of services installed on your computer by going to
Start -> Run and typing "services.msc" (without quotation marks). You
can disable any service that you feel is unnecessary.

Warning: Before you disable or stop a service, please make sure that
you dont need it. Disabling an important service can lead to undesired
behavior and can also lead to system instability. Please check the
functionality provided by each service using the internet.

Hope this helps.

-Taha Tungekar