Startup Order

[Guest]

There are numerous applications such as McAfee, etc. and other McAfee
components in the startup, my question is, can you change their order in
startup and therefore control which ones activate first to last? And by doing
this can or would you be able to improve any amount of the startup
performance?

 

[R. McCarty]

It's possible, but difficult and might make the boot sequence slower.
Many Services/Applications have dependencies - things that must
be running before others start. Startup items can load from different
locations - Registry keys, Startup Folders, Service mappings. XP
uses Prefetching to create boot time parallel operations, where all
your drivers and services start in an optimized mode.
Unfortunately, McAfee and Symantec software aren't the most sleek
and efficient software around. Both products tend to be "Bloated" &
cause extended boot cycles. For example when I used Norton AV
and Firewall on my PC the boot time would average 65-90 seconds.
After I dumped Norton for other products my cold boot to usable
desktop is 42 seconds.
I understand your situation and what you'd like to accomplish, but
your options is very limited.

 

[Guest]

It's possible, but difficult and might make the boot sequence slower.
Many Services/Applications have dependencies - things that must
be running before others start. Startup items can load from different
locations - Registry keys, Startup Folders, Service mappings. XP
uses Prefetching to create boot time parallel operations, where all
your drivers and services start in an optimized mode.
Unfortunately, McAfee and Symantec software aren't the most sleek
and efficient software around. Both products tend to be "Bloated" &
cause extended boot cycles. For example when I used Norton AV
and Firewall on my PC the boot time would average 65-90 seconds.
After I dumped Norton for other products my cold boot to usable
desktop is 42 seconds.
I understand your situation and what you'd like to accomplish, but
your options is very limited.




Thanks for a great explanation, what you're saying makes total sense, the term dependencis is the key, my quest was based on one application that is very slow when botting up and I thought I could manuever it to go first.

As the saying oes "If it ain't broke, live with it" lol!!