I have Windows Vista on my laptop and everytime I reboot my computer it takes forever because as soon as my computer boots up 69 processes are running. I use to play computer games back in the day when I had a desktop and for best performance in my games and fast reboots I would only have like 25 processes running when my computer booted. I remember there being some type of program that I was able to run and then I showed someone on a forum the results(which showed which processes were all running on my computer). They were then able to tell me which processes did not need to run at start up so that I could set them not to run. I know how to use msconfig and change my startup configuration, but I do not know which processes I can tell not to startup on boot because I do not want to mess up anything important like my norton and systematic antivirus software. Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated.
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Too Many Processes Start When My Computer Boots Up
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A sad fact of live is (in my opinion) that Internet Security Suites such as Norton, MaCafee, and the like, have over time become a burden on computer performance and are often referred to by others as being a "resource hog". See what your performance is like from Safe Mode, and see what it is like if you temporarily disable Norton.
In Normal Mode with all applications and services running, check out the Task Manager, see what processes is using the CPU. An idling machine should (if you're lucky) show the System Idle process running at as close to 99% as is possible.
How much RAM do you have installed?
In Normal Mode with all applications and services running, check out the Task Manager, see what processes is using the CPU. An idling machine should (if you're lucky) show the System Idle process running at as close to 99% as is possible.
How much RAM do you have installed?
linney is correct about Norton, but don't forget that another sad fact, is that everyone needs Anti-malware protection running on any computer that connects to the Internet.
So whatever you do, if you decide get rid of Norton (recommended), make sure you replace it with something else.
Have a browse through the posts in this TT Forum
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So whatever you do, if you decide get rid of Norton (recommended), make sure you replace it with something else.
Have a browse through the posts in this TT Forum
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Hello my fellow forum mate.I have a problem with my hp 550 laptop.i just started my laptop this morning before it boot to desktop environment it just suddenly display blue screen error.i have try to do system recovery but yet the blue screen error is still there.i don't want to lose my data.pls can someone expain to me on how to solve Blue screen error problem.
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On top of anti-malware suites you also have a raft of vendor-provided "management" cruft running these days. HP is nasty about this and will even load in more when you install printer drivers, but I'm sure they're far from alone or even the worst about this. They all want to pile on services for autoupdate checks, preloaded "quickstart" crap (I'm looking at you Acrobat and Quicktime), and the list goes on.
We hear a lot about "green" this and that but I have to believe the resource consumption of all this... "palware" has to have a cost beyond the user frustration of slow startups and performance degradation.
I'm amazed there hasn't been a bigger effort to shame these vendors as a class and by name in the press, but there you go. People are sheep, and computer journalists ride in corporate pockets as much as any politician.
We hear a lot about "green" this and that but I have to believe the resource consumption of all this... "palware" has to have a cost beyond the user frustration of slow startups and performance degradation.
I'm amazed there hasn't been a bigger effort to shame these vendors as a class and by name in the press, but there you go. People are sheep, and computer journalists ride in corporate pockets as much as any politician.
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Take a look at CCleaner ( It's a sweet little utility that allows you to:
1) Clean the hard drive of temporary files, downloaded install files, IE/FireFox temporary files, etc.
2) Disable/Remove things that are starting up automatically
3) Uninstall programs, even if they're not listed in Add/Remove programs (like messenger)
4) Do a registry clean/scan.
I use it regularly.
Just my 2¢
"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."
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1) Clean the hard drive of temporary files, downloaded install files, IE/FireFox temporary files, etc.
2) Disable/Remove things that are starting up automatically
3) Uninstall programs, even if they're not listed in Add/Remove programs (like messenger)
4) Do a registry clean/scan.
I use it regularly.
Just my 2¢
"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."
--Greg
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