stopping useless processes on startup

[Guest]

Hi all,

Recently i've been becoming more and more frustrated with the fact that
everytime i start my laptop, it takes a while and when examining task manager
after start up there are a lot of processes loaded that I will rarely use at
all, and they are taken up a lot of memory.

So I recently started messing around with msconfig attempting to disable
services, and this is what I did.

1) ran msconfig...
2) clicked services tab
3) clicked "Hide microsoft services"
4) noticed the two that had been annoying me the most, MATLAB server (for
the matlab maths program, which as I've finished my maths courses last
semester, i probably won't be using for a little while), and clicked the
checkbox next to it to disable it
5) I then did the same for Tenable Nessus (the network vulnerability
scanning program, as I also rarely use it, and have no need for it to be
taking up so much memory for no reason)

it's actually quite rediculous, the process is called nessusd.exe (from task
mgr), and it takes up 27,124 K for nothing & no reason

Anyway, so after checking these in msconfig and being asked to restart I
did. When windows booted I rcieved message box notification informing me that
i was starting in selective startup mode, and should change to normal startup
(i hadn't actually changed anything in this General tab). Nevertheless I
changed back to the normal startup, and went back into the services tab to
see what changes had happened. Now at this point both matlab and nessus were
reenabled.

So basically my question is, how to I get rid of these useless processes
that waste my memory? Is there a guide somewhere on the internet so I know
which ones I can and can't disable? And how to I properly disable them
without getting strange messages back from msconfig or it to stay disabled?

Thanks in advance,
intransit

 

[Qu0ll]

Hi all,

Recently i've been becoming more and more frustrated with the fact that
everytime i start my laptop, it takes a while and when examining task
manager
after start up there are a lot of processes loaded that I will rarely use
at
all, and they are taken up a lot of memory.

So I recently started messing around with msconfig attempting to disable
services, and this is what I did.

1) ran msconfig...
2) clicked services tab
3) clicked "Hide microsoft services"
4) noticed the two that had been annoying me the most, MATLAB server (for
the matlab maths program, which as I've finished my maths courses last
semester, i probably won't be using for a little while), and clicked the
checkbox next to it to disable it
5) I then did the same for Tenable Nessus (the network vulnerability
scanning program, as I also rarely use it, and have no need for it to be
taking up so much memory for no reason)

it's actually quite rediculous, the process is called nessusd.exe (from
task
mgr), and it takes up 27,124 K for nothing & no reason

Anyway, so after checking these in msconfig and being asked to restart I
did. When windows booted I rcieved message box notification informing me
that
i was starting in selective startup mode, and should change to normal
startup
(i hadn't actually changed anything in this General tab). Nevertheless I
changed back to the normal startup, and went back into the services tab to
see what changes had happened. Now at this point both matlab and nessus
were
reenabled.

So basically my question is, how to I get rid of these useless processes
that waste my memory? Is there a guide somewhere on the internet so I know
which ones I can and can't disable? And how to I properly disable them
without getting strange messages back from msconfig or it to stay
disabled?

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

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[Rock]

Hi all,

Recently i've been becoming more and more frustrated with the fact that
everytime i start my laptop, it takes a while and when examining task
manager
after start up there are a lot of processes loaded that I will rarely use
at
all, and they are taken up a lot of memory.

So I recently started messing around with msconfig attempting to disable
services, and this is what I did.

1) ran msconfig...
2) clicked services tab
3) clicked "Hide microsoft services"
4) noticed the two that had been annoying me the most, MATLAB server (for
the matlab maths program, which as I've finished my maths courses last
semester, i probably won't be using for a little while), and clicked the
checkbox next to it to disable it
5) I then did the same for Tenable Nessus (the network vulnerability
scanning program, as I also rarely use it, and have no need for it to be
taking up so much memory for no reason)

it's actually quite rediculous, the process is called nessusd.exe (from
task
mgr), and it takes up 27,124 K for nothing & no reason

Anyway, so after checking these in msconfig and being asked to restart I
did. When windows booted I rcieved message box notification informing me
that
i was starting in selective startup mode, and should change to normal
startup
(i hadn't actually changed anything in this General tab). Nevertheless I
changed back to the normal startup, and went back into the services tab to
see what changes had happened. Now at this point both matlab and nessus
were
reenabled.

So basically my question is, how to I get rid of these useless processes
that waste my memory? Is there a guide somewhere on the internet so I know
which ones I can and can't disable? And how to I properly disable them
without getting strange messages back from msconfig or it to stay
disabled?

Yes, of course, when you tell it to go back to normal startup, then it
undoes the changes you made. To keep the changes, just tick the box that
says don't remind me again. The dialog box goes away and it won't return
until the next time you make changes with msconfig. It will be loading in
selective startup mode because you stopped some items from starting.

That said, you should _not_ use msconfig to manage services, nor is it
intended for managing startup programs. It's purpose is as a
troubleshooting tool. Services should be stopped, disabled or started using
the services mmc console. To get to that go to Start | Run | services.msc |
Ok. In the right pane scroll to the service in question, double click it,
then if running stop it, and to keep that service from starting the next
time change the service type to disabled.

To stop programs from running at startup the 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