I thought I knew enough!

[Diehardcamper]

OK--I know this might be a super simple solution for most of you who use this forum but for most of us, stuff like this is confusing. I am trying to disable certain items on my MSCONFIG to increase my start up speed. If I disable everything, certain programs won't run. If I keep everything enabled, the start up is super slow. Brand spankin' new laptop. What can I disable and what do I have to keep enabled?

I have heard both: disable everything and some say to keep certain things enabled? Can anybody make this simple to understand?

Thank you!

[jbm]

It depends on what you have installed. What I mean by that is, its the

program being installed that puts the entries in msconfig startup.

Most of the time I've found that most can be disabled without problems.

In the services tab check hide microsoft services, again I've found most

of those left can be disabled without problems, but it depends on the program

that installed them. You'll have to either do a little trouble shooting

by disabling everything then finding what doesn't work and reenabling

items until you find the one that needs to be enabled

Or you could post what programs don't work and what you've disabled and

someone that runs the same program could help.

Edited September 5, 2005 by jbm

[Diehardcamper]

OK--thanks--silly sitting here at 3:00 in the morning trying to speed up my laptop! Thanks again!

[prathapml]

Or maybe post a list of all the items in your "startup" tab, and we could tell which ones are not needed for sure.

[iWindoze]

  OK--I know this might be a super simple solution for most of you who use this forum but for most of us, stuff like this is confusing.  I am trying to disable certain items on my MSCONFIG to increase my start up speed.  If I disable everything, certain programs won't run.  If I keep everything enabled, the start up is super slow.  Brand spankin' new laptop.  What can I disable and what do I have to keep enabled?

I have heard both:  disable everything and some say to keep certain things enabled?  Can anybody make this simple to understand?

Thank you!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You DEFINATELY want to read Black Viper's services guide!

[ http://www.blackviper.com/ ]

Also if you're feeling particularly adventurous you could mosey

on over to [ http://www.nliteos.com ] and try building an XP

distro that slipstreams drivers, etc in to the system at install and

eliminate alot of annoying services that way...

Edited September 5, 2005 by iWindoze

[JRosenfeld]

To find out what startup items are and do, use

http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html

or

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm

Edited as just saw I gave the same link twice..

Edited September 7, 2005 by JRosenfeld

[Diehardcamper]

OK-thanks--didn't know where to turn but here. Man, and I thought I knew pretty much about computers until I starting reading peoples comments on here--unreal--I know nothing!