Slow startup + License problem.

[Guest]

1) On startup my system runs slow. How do I see whats running, delete what I
don't want running on startup and how do I know what to delete and what not to

2) The past few days everytime I go to a new site I get a security pop up
stating the license is not up to date. When I check License, it is not
expired. Why am I getting this alert. It's becoming bothersome. I have
run virus (trendmicro) and spyware (adaware) scans on my computer

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

1) On startup my system runs slow. How do I see whats running,
delete what I don't want running on startup and how do I know what to
delete and what not to

You mean it takes a long time to start up?

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.

 

[Guest]

Are you referring to the security license for web sites (Certificate
Authority)?

To disable items that start up, go to:

start then run and type in the run dialog MSCONFIG.
Select the startup tab, here is where you can select what programs start up
when windows starts.

 

[Guest]

Yes I am talking about security license for web sites. It says I'm still in
a secure site, just their certificate expired...which it hasn't