Startup

[Guest]

edMy computer is slow to boot on XP Pro - SP2

As I have defragged and clean all discs, I am sure there are too many items
loading at Startup.

I believe I recall a way to display all applications loading at Startup, and
then to check a box that allows you to temporarily stop that application from
loading without making a permanent change to the registry.

Help?

 

[Patrick Keenan]

edMy computer is slow to boot on XP Pro - SP2

As I have defragged and clean all discs, I am sure there are too many
items
loading at Startup.

I believe I recall a way to display all applications loading at Startup,
and
then to check a box that allows you to temporarily stop that application
from
loading without making a permanent change to the registry.

Help?

Start, Run. msconfig <enter>

HTH
-pk

 

[Gerry]

Peter

Any Norton programmes?

Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in the
System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the last boot. No
Information Reports please.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning
of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description
are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you
should double click for further information. You can copy using copy
and paste. Often the link will, however, say there is no further
information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.

How much RAM? What processor speed?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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[Plato]

I believe I recall a way to display all applications loading at Startup, and
then to check a box that allows you to temporarily stop that application from
loading without making a permanent change to the registry.

msconfig

 

[Rock]

edMy computer is slow to boot on XP Pro - SP2

As I have defragged and clean all discs, I am sure there are too many
items
loading at Startup.

I believe I recall a way to display all applications loading at Startup,
and
then to check a box that allows you to temporarily stop that application
from
loading without making a permanent change to the registry.

Autoruns from MS is a good program for this to see where programs which are
running at startup are coming from.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/AutoRuns.mspx

First step to eliminate startup programs should be to check in the options
for the program you don't want to start and see if there is a setting to
tell it not to run at startup. The next step is to remove any entries you
don't want from the two startup folders:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

For anything else uncheck their entries in the startup tab of msconfig or in
Autoruns:
Start | Run | Msconfig | Ok

Another option is to remove the reference to them from one of these keys in
the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

Make sure you have a backup of the registry using a program like ERUNT
before making any changes to the registry.

ERUNT
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

Installing and Using ERUNT
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm