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378712 2005-08-05 21:53:00 hi, does anyone know of a good program that could easily tell me which services
i can disable without causing programs to fail. i only have nine programs that startup but my boot time is close to a minute.also i use a program called Windows Registry Repair Pro and when i scan .dll files i get an enormous amount of duplicates, are they safe to delete? thanks all

winXP Home
786RAM 512MB FREE
120GB HDD
128MB Geforce 5200
Christopher (365)
378713 2005-08-05 22:08:00 Tell us what programs run on startup, and then we can tell u which ones u dont need to be under the startup tab / startup menu .

NOT a good idea using something like Windows Registry Repair Pro UNLESS u know what you're doing .

One WRONG move, programs like this can KILL a system .

It may also depend on how fast a system is, on how fast it boots into Windows / XP . Whats the speed of the CPU??

An easier program to use is ccleaner .

http://www . ccleaner . com and its free .

It has a tools / uninstall option, and a startup tab, where u can delete programs that arent needed on bootup .

Or you can search google/yahoo on the entries that are in startup . Either one will tell u what the file is, or whether it's needed, in startup .

There is a services option in XP, where u can disable some services to do with XP . BUT it's not a good idea, to disable any services, if u don't know what they do .
Speedy Gonzales (78)
378714 2005-08-05 22:09:00 A lot of people use Black Viper's hints, but his website is temporarily down. Suggest you try it again in another day or so:
www.blackviper.com
Greg (193)
378715 2005-08-05 22:17:00 Another site you can try is SysInfo (www.sysinfo.org). This site has a list of what most applications are that are showing up in your startup list.
Using the search facility is your best bet, type in the name of the startup application, click search; and voila, it will tell you what service uses it
Myth (110)
378716 2005-08-05 22:25:00 A lot of people use Black Viper's hints, but his website is temporarily down.
I don't know if it is going to come back, Greg, as it has been down for months now. Try this page (majorgeeks.com) instead.
FoxyMX (5)
378717 2005-08-05 23:12:00 Thanks all for the advice. you know when i run Ad-Aware SE Personal it tells me that there is over 854 Process modules running, are all these modules needed because i thought that might be why why boot time is so long, i have nothing in my starup folder.

Win XP Home
CPU: 2.8GHz Pentium 4
120GB HDD
786MB RAM 512MB FREE
128MB Geforce 5200 Graphics
Christopher (365)
378718 2005-08-05 23:13:00 I don't know if it is going to come back, Greg, as it has been down for months now. Try this page (majorgeeks.com) instead.
Ah. Cheers for that.
Greg (193)
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