Blue Screen messages not understood???

[Guest]

My computer has been shutting down and a blue screen comes on and says,
"Disable BIOS Memory Option such as caching or shadowing." Can someone help
me or direct me as to how this is done. My computer also runs slow, freezes
or shuts down. AOL told me that my computer has too much load in the
background when it starts up. I am to contact my computer manufacturer and
have them disable unwanted startup programs running in the background. Anyone
ever have to do this to their computer as well. How is this latter question
done . Any help would be so appreciated. I am so frustrated. A newbie with
computers.

 

[Plato]

One step is to click on the 15 or so icons you most likely have in the
tray, bottom right of your screen, and find the config/setup option to
tell them NOT to run on windows startup.

 

[Jone Doe]

My computer has been shutting down and a blue screen comes on and says,
"Disable BIOS Memory Option such as caching or shadowing." Can someone
help
me or direct me as to how this is done. My computer also runs slow,
freezes
or shuts down. AOL told me that my computer has too much load in the
background when it starts up. I am to contact my computer manufacturer and
have them disable unwanted startup programs running in the background.
Anyone
ever have to do this to their computer as well. How is this latter
question
done . Any help would be so appreciated. I am so frustrated. A newbie with
computers.

Well, it does indeed seem that every program you download wants to run at
startup and have a place of honor in the task bar at all times. Take a look
at the bottom of the screen to see how many programs are actually running
just after you have started the computer. Open or right click the program
and see if there is some kind of "run at start up option" that you can
uncheck.

All you really need running at startup is your firewall and the needed
programs to run windows. You might try start, run, msconfig and click the
start up tab and see if anything is running that you don't need at startup.
You can always recheck it if you find you can't live without it.