Streamline startup?

[William Pine]

I would like to accellerate the speed of my computer's startup. I suspect
lots of stuff is loading on startup that needn't, but I don't know how to
determine the necessary from the unnecessary.

Runing msconfig to look at what loads on startup isn't helpful, given that I
don't understand the abbreviations in the lists of Startup Items, Commands,
and Locations that appear under System Configuration Utility startup tab.

Does anyone know a reference source of unabbreviated names for file types
and application names of the sort of things that load when a computer
starts?

Does anyone know a better way to figure out what need not load on startup
than disabling items one at a time and finding out what happens? This seems
like at the least an annoying, and possibly worse, way to find out something
must load on startup.

Thanks,

Bill
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[Kelly]

Hi Bill,

Actually there really isn't much needed at all for Startup, these are mostly
preferences and boss hog programs. As for knowing what they are, most can
be figured out by looking at the name and/or path.

 

[Kelly]

True, but Nv = NVIDIA