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it takes my pc a long time to start-up and the task bar is full how can i
disable all these so they dont automaticly start u
 
Are you using any Norton or McAfee products? If yes which?

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Gerry Cornell said:
Are you using any Norton or McAfee products? If yes which?

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Gerry
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Stourport, England

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mcafee

Gerry Cornell said:
Are you using any Norton or McAfee products? If yes which?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England

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Both Norton and McAfee are infamous for creating performance issues
on computers. You might consider AVG. A change definitely helps with
your system performance. Lower overheads.
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/FAQ

http://www.thepcspy.com/articles/other/what_really_slows_windows_down/5

How much RAM memory?Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task
Manager and click the Performance Tab. What is the Total,
the Commit Charge and the Peak?

What is your CPU processor speed? Right click on your My
Computer icon on your Desktop and select Properties to get
this information and the amount of RAM memory.

How large is your hard disk and how much free disk space? In
Windows Explorer right click on your C drive and select
Properties. Is the hard disk formatted as fat32 or NTFS?

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Gerry
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Stourport, England

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wronglane said:
it takes my pc a long time to start-up
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How long?

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.

and the task bar is full how
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Do you mean the System Notification Area (aka System Tray), the part of the
task bar where the clock is?

can i disable all these so they dont automaticly start u
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If you want to address slow startup, it may be because of what programs
start automatically, but note that you should be concerned with *all*
programs that start automatically, not just with those that go into the
tray. Not all autostarting programs manifest themselves by an icon in the
tray.

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.
 
yes were the clock is there is a load of icons

Ken Blake said:
How long?

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.




Do you mean the System Notification Area (aka System Tray), the part of the
task bar where the clock is?




If you want to address slow startup, it may be because of what programs
start automatically, but note that you should be concerned with *all*
programs that start automatically, not just with those that go into the
tray. Not all autostarting programs manifest themselves by an icon in the
tray.

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.
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yes were the clock is there is a load of icons
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So noone answered your question.

There is 3 ways to stop them from loading.

(In this particular order.)

1) The programs preferences. It may be in a context menu on the System
Tray (clock area) icon itself, or within the program itself.

2) Delete any shortcuts placed in the Start Menu 'Startup' group.

3) Run 'msconfig' from the Star Menu -> Run box. Got to the 'Startup' tab
and un-check things there.

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You end up with a LOT of programs starting at boot up when you buy a
Dell/Gateway/Compaq/etc PC. And mostly for stupid programs you don't use.

My PC has 3 icons in the System Tray....AV, Volume Control, Zone Alarm.

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And you'll get the argument that why is that too many ? It really doesn't
matter how many, but what each one does. But if you don't want it there,
by all means, you should remove it.

Regards,

DanS
 
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