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| Thread ID: 75605 | 2007-01-04 21:03:00 | Notebook - Startup Processes | allblack (6574) | Press F1 |
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| 512707 | 2007-01-04 21:03:00 | Hi guys, happy new year! Yet another superb day in the country's greatest city :thumbs: Anyway, recently bought a Tosh lappie and the thing is going great guns - except the time it takes to get from dead to desktop . The toolbar / taskbar / whatever-bar at the bottom of the screen is chokka with icons, and I'm presuming when this thing boots up it's trying to also start up a zillion processes it/I don't need . So . . . . . two questions: Where do I go to see what processes it's running during startup, and more importantly . . . . . . . What should I be including in the startup process, and what should I un-tick (maybe?) I right-clicked on the bar . . . . . but didn't understand what I was looking at . As this machine is brand new, I'd like to wait at least a month before I start screwing around with stuff I don't know about . :D I've read stories about msconfig and registry settings etc . . . . . . kinda hoping it doesn't involve any of that . . . . . Thanks guys! T |
allblack (6574) | ||
| 512708 | 2007-01-04 21:23:00 | Get ccleaner and then click on tools / startup. Or post a hijackthis log, and we'll tell u what can be removed from startup. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 512709 | 2007-01-04 21:35:00 | msconfig put this in run and go to start up tag. tell us what it has in there. then we can tell what you dont need. if you think you need to do a ccleaner or hijack this you will need to download these, but update them first. beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 512710 | 2007-01-04 21:43:00 | Get ccleaner and then click on tools / startup. Or post a hijackthis log, and we'll tell u what can be removed from startup. Funny you should mention ccleaner......I read about it here and d/loaded it on my lappie early this week.....seemed to qualify as a "Good T hing"..... .......and I ran it and it "cleaned" 75MB of stuff!!!!! Nearly wet myself.....the lappie is like two weeks old. How can there be 75MB of "unclean" on there???? Been too scared to touch it since :D But...if Speedy says...then I do. I'll have a play tonight and also with (gulp) msconfig.. T |
allblack (6574) | ||
| 512711 | 2007-01-04 21:54:00 | ccleaner does the same as msconfig really. Either one will remove startup entries. (altho you're only unticking entries in msconfig, the entry is still there). Ccleaner will remove the entry completely. Yup ccleaner removes a lot, the 75mb may have been web sites you've been to. files you've installed (their temp files), and cookies. It doesn't take long to fill a hdd up with crap, if u use a browser, and install a lot of files. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 512712 | 2007-01-04 22:10:00 | Funny you should mention ccleaner......I read about it here and d/loaded it on my lappie early this week.....seemed to qualify as a "Good Thing"..... .......and I ran it and it "cleaned" 75MB of stuff!!!!! Nearly wet myself.....the lappie is like two weeks old. How can there be 75MB of "unclean" on there???? Been too scared to touch it since :D T IE would be the main culprit there. I found I had a whole lot less crap install itself on my PC at home after I started using FireFox 1.5 and haven't looked back since. If you think that 75MB of crap is a lot of stuff for a knowledgeable PC user to pick up on their machine from just a couple of weeks of web browsing can you imagine what your average uninformed PC user picks up? Scary eh ;) |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 512713 | 2007-01-04 22:13:00 | He was using Opera last i saw, but he may have gone back to IE. :p :illogical beetle:eek: |
beetle (243) | ||
| 512714 | 2007-01-04 22:16:00 | He was using Opera last i saw, but he may have gone back to IE. :p :illogical beetle:eek: Oops my fault! I ass-u-me-d he was using IE. Doh! |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 512715 | 2007-01-04 22:27:00 | IE would be the main culprit there. I found I had a whole lot less crap install itself on my PC at home after I started using FireFox 1.5 and haven't looked back since. If you think that 75MB of crap is a lot of stuff for a knowledgeable PC user to pick up on their machine from just a couple of weeks of web browsing can you imagine what your average uninformed PC user picks up? Scary eh ;) Ummm.......I qualify as your "average uninformed PC user"....... I'm gonna install ccleaner on my desktop tonight...which I've had for three years....if your lights go out that'll be the national grid failing....sorry :D I've been using Opera (mainly) on the lappie thus far.....but IE on the desktop. T his should be fun....... T |
allblack (6574) | ||
| 512716 | 2007-01-04 22:43:00 | Ummm.......I qualify as your "average uninformed PC user"....... T My apologies. The fact that you are on this forum was the reason I gave you the "informed" user tag. I am more useful on a Mac than a PC. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
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