startup programs

[Guest]

Since starting to use McAfee internet security program and firewall, my
computer is now taking 2-3 minutes to go from Standby mode, to finally view
an e-mail or web page. I'm not sure if these programs are the cause of this
slowdown. However, when I installed Windows XP several years ago, a Microsoft
technician advised that I had too many programs starting up at one time, and
he told me which programs were absolutely necessary for startup, and which
ones I should only startup as needed. I forgot to write down this info, so I
would appreciate anyone's advice on which programs at startup I need, and
which ones I can delete from startup. Thanks.

 

[You Know Who ~]

I strongly suggest that you not mess with your startup files. At any rate,
if they don't start up when windows boots they will start up whenever you
launch the relevant programs.
At any rate, not knowing what sort of software you are using, I can't tell
what you DONT need, but for start, I would suggest McAfee.

--
YKW~

"When the fifteen dwarves had dwindled to eight.....
everyone became very suspicious of Hungry."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Malvern]

Programs or Processes ? If latter, I defer to others as eliminating the
wrong ones could equal trouble. (I remember seeing a post on one of the
NG's stating that around 30 processes were average; this may or may not
apply to you.)

Now it it's PROGRAMS, You can access the Startup folder by right-clicking
Start button, then select Open All Users. In next window, select Programs >
Startup. Next window: Are there any programs listed you are familiar with,
therefore feel safe deleting the shortcut for ? If not, leave alone.

Malv

 

[Rock]

Since starting to use McAfee internet security program and firewall, my
computer is now taking 2-3 minutes to go from Standby mode, to finally
view
an e-mail or web page. I'm not sure if these programs are the cause of
this
slowdown. However, when I installed Windows XP several years ago, a
Microsoft
technician advised that I had too many programs starting up at one time,
and
he told me which programs were absolutely necessary for startup, and which
ones I should only startup as needed. I forgot to write down this info, so
I
would appreciate anyone's advice on which programs at startup I need, and
which ones I can delete from startup. Thanks.

I don't recommend using McAfee or any of the Norton home security products
or any of the security suites.

For firewall I recommend Kerio Personal Firewall from Sunbelt software or
Comodo Personal Firewall.

For AV it's Avast (free) or NOD32

For non viral malware it's Windows Defender, Ad-Aware SE Personal, Spybot
S&D, and Spyware Blaster, all free and all can be installed at the same
time. It takes more than one of these programs. Only Defender should be
memory resident. The others use to scan manually (Spyware Blaster is not a
scanner. Just Update it regularly).

For what startup programs most everything that runs at startup with the
exception of the above items, can be removed. A better approach is to
determine what is causing your particular problem.

Open task manager and see what's running, also look in msconfig, then use
some of these resources to research what each one does, if you're not sure.
After that you can decide which ones to remove.

www.google.com
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm
http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm

To stop a program from running at startup, first step should be to check in
the options for the program you don't want to start and see if there is a
setting to tell it not to run at startup. The next step is to remove any
entries you don't want from the two startup folders:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

For anything else uncheck their entries in the startup tab of msconfig:
Start | Run | Msconfig | Ok

Another option is to remove the reference to them from one of these keys in
the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

Make sure you have a backup of the registry using a program like ERUNT
before making any changes to the registry.

ERUNT
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

Installing and Using ERUNT
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm