Guest PeterB Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 edMy computer is slow to boot on XP Pro - SP2 As I have defragged and clean all discs, I am sure there are too many items loading at Startup. I believe I recall a way to display all applications loading at Startup, and then to check a box that allows you to temporarily stop that application from loading without making a permanent change to the registry. Help?
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Re: Startup "PeterB" <PeterB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:25411465-48F9-4116-ABC4-16E9D53FC18D@microsoft.com... > edMy computer is slow to boot on XP Pro - SP2 > > As I have defragged and clean all discs, I am sure there are too many > items > loading at Startup. > > I believe I recall a way to display all applications loading at Startup, > and > then to check a box that allows you to temporarily stop that application > from > loading without making a permanent change to the registry. > > Help? Start, Run. msconfig <enter> HTH -pk
Guest Gerry Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Re: Startup Peter Any Norton programmes? Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the last boot. No Information Reports please. You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important. HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you should double click for further information. You can copy using copy and paste. Often the link will, however, say there is no further information. http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp (Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only) A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event Viewer. How much RAM? What processor speed? -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "PeterB" <PeterB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:25411465-48F9-4116-ABC4-16E9D53FC18D@microsoft.com... > edMy computer is slow to boot on XP Pro - SP2 > > As I have defragged and clean all discs, I am sure there are too many > items > loading at Startup. > > I believe I recall a way to display all applications loading at > Startup, and > then to check a box that allows you to temporarily stop that > application from > loading without making a permanent change to the registry. > > Help? > >
Guest Plato Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Re: Startup =?Utf-8?B?UGV0ZXJC?= wrote: > > I believe I recall a way to display all applications loading at Startup, and > then to check a box that allows you to temporarily stop that application from > loading without making a permanent change to the registry. msconfig -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
Guest Rock Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 Re: Startup "PeterB" <PeterB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote > edMy computer is slow to boot on XP Pro - SP2 > > As I have defragged and clean all discs, I am sure there are too many > items > loading at Startup. > > I believe I recall a way to display all applications loading at Startup, > and > then to check a box that allows you to temporarily stop that application > from > loading without making a permanent change to the registry. Autoruns from MS is a good program for this to see where programs which are running at startup are coming from. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/AutoRuns.mspx First step to eliminate startup programs should be to check in the options for the program you don't want to start and see if there is a setting to tell it not to run at startup. The next step is to remove any entries you don't want from the two startup folders: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Start Menu\Programs\Startup C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup For anything else uncheck their entries in the startup tab of msconfig or in Autoruns: Start | Run | Msconfig | Ok Another option is to remove the reference to them from one of these keys in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce Make sure you have a backup of the registry using a program like ERUNT before making any changes to the registry. ERUNT http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/ http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt Installing and Using ERUNT http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm -- Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
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