PROGRAMS THAT BOOT AT STARTUP

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MY SYSTEM TAKES A LONG TIME TO STARTUP (GATEWAY LAPTOP).
HOW CAN I TELL WHICH PROGRAMS ARE BOOTING WHEN I TURN ON SYSTEM.
SOME OF THE PROGRAMS ARE SELDOM USED. I WANT A FASTER BOOT.

PLEASE ADVISE.
 
MY SYSTEM TAKES A LONG TIME TO STARTUP (GATEWAY LAPTOP).
HOW CAN I TELL WHICH PROGRAMS ARE BOOTING WHEN I TURN ON SYSTEM.
SOME OF THE PROGRAMS ARE SELDOM USED. I WANT A FASTER BOOT.
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ALL CAPS is considered shouting and improper. Turn of the caps lock key.

You have gotten several good answers about removing programs that load at
boot up, but be aware that laptops in general take longer to boot up than
desktops. There can be many reasons, but one feature of a laptop that
doesn't exist in most desktops is a wireless networking capability. We just
finished working on a soon-to-be student who took his laptop on a journey
across the country as his last act of freedom for a while. Everywhere he
stopped, he signed on to any open wireless network that popped up, got his
email and used the Internet to get maps to his next destination. When he
returned he had 81 wireless networks set to connect automatically. 8
minutes searching.......

We've got the boot time down to just under one minute, but it will never be
a fast as a desktop.

As a suggestion, always use standby if you can keep the laptop on AC power.
I even bought a separate power supply for my laptop so I don't have to keep
moving the power supply when I go on the road.
 
Rogerinthecity said:
MY SYSTEM TAKES A LONG TIME TO STARTUP (GATEWAY LAPTOP).
HOW CAN I TELL WHICH PROGRAMS ARE BOOTING WHEN I TURN ON SYSTEM.
SOME OF THE PROGRAMS ARE SELDOM USED. I WANT A FASTER BOOT.
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Ouch! Please don't yell at us. We can hear you if you type normally, in
mixed case.

My personal view is that the attention many people pay to how long it takes
to boot is unwarranted. Assuming that the computer's speed is otherwise
satisfactory, it may not be worth worrying about. Most people start their
computers once a day or even less frequently. In the overall scheme of
things, even a few minutes to start up isn't very important. Personally I
power on my computer when I get up in the morning, then go get my coffee.
When I come back, it's done booting. I don't know how long it took to boot
and I don't care.

However if you do want to address it, it may be because of what programs
start automatically, and you may want to stop some of them from starting
that way. On each program you don't want to start automatically, check its
Options to see if it has the choice not to start (make sure you actually
choose the option not to run it, not just a "don't show icon" option). Many
can easily and best be stopped that way. If that doesn't work, run MSCONFIG
from the Start | Run line, and on the Startup tab, uncheck the programs you
don't want to start automatically.

However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose of running
the minimum number of programs. Despite what many people tell you, you
should be concerned, not with how *many* of these programs you run, but
*which*. Some of them can hurt performance severely, but others have no
effect on performance.

Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you should do is
determine what each program is, what its value is to you, and what the cost
in performance is of its running all the time. You can get more information
about these at http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html. If you can't find it
there, try google searches and ask about specifics here.

Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent informed
decision about what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of.
 
Rogerinthecity said:
MY SYSTEM TAKES A LONG TIME TO STARTUP (GATEWAY LAPTOP).
HOW CAN I TELL WHICH PROGRAMS ARE BOOTING WHEN I TURN ON SYSTEM.
SOME OF THE PROGRAMS ARE SELDOM USED. I WANT A FASTER BOOT.

PLEASE ADVISE.
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In most cases, with "well-mannered" applications, it's usually as
simple as opening the undesired program and deselecting the option to
"display icon in the system tray" or to "start when Windows starts."

Look in the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start
Menu\Programs\Start Up and C:\Documents and Settings\username\Start
Menu\Programs\Start Up folders, and in the system registry, primarily in
the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run keys.

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;310560

Also, please unstick your CapsLock key. Posting in all caps, as
you have done, is the Usenet equivalent of shouting, and is considered
very rude by a large number of people. More importantly, posting in all
caps makes the post harder to read, further reducing your chances of
getting help; a great many people won't even try to read such a message.
If you want improve the chances of receiving help, simply comply with
the dictates of common courtesy and the conventions of the milieu.


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