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kittygator
03-26-2004, 04:29 PM
Heh Heh, Guess I don't know XP's buzz acronym for this task. I searched the help files too.

Anyhow, I would like to know how to manage the programs that run during start up. I would like to disable the ones I don't need for better performance.

Thanks, Kitty :o ;)

PS the site is beautiful, Nice Blue, very welcoming
wks
03-26-2004, 04:39 PM
Kittygator, try this: press start, then "run", then type in msconfig that should bring up a menu-hit the startup tab and get busy!
kittygator
03-31-2004, 08:42 PM
now, what are the minimum start items up items, to get xp pro to start, with no fluff, i think there are 6? where would i find these nessary items

thanks again :D
Bond
04-01-2004, 07:38 AM
If you're looking in MSCONFIG then there are no "required" items. Some probably SHOULD be there, but you could remove them all and XP would still boot just fine (and you probably wouldn't even notice a difference -- except in speed).

Since you're looking for better performance, I would recommend disabling them all. Then, add each one back as you need it and see which one is really decreasing your system performance. You can also look in the Task Manager to see what kind of footprint each application takes up in your system's memory and check the CPU time for each to see how many clock cycles they're eating up.
kittygator
04-02-2004, 09:14 AM
Purrfect, did some reading too, and yeapper, got her going. Do you like the Adaware 6.0 for the spy thang, and is there a favorite for pop up blocker.

Meow Again, Kitty ;) ;)
Greg
04-02-2004, 09:21 AM
Purrfect, did some reading too, and yeapper, got her going. Do you like the Adaware 6.0 for the spy thang, and is there a favorite for pop up blocker.

Meow Again, Kitty ;) ;)

My favorite Popup blocker is to not use IE and use Mozilla FireFox. :)

But if you must use IE, the google toolbar has a popup blocker.

http://toolbar.google.com/
Zero Tolerance
04-02-2004, 10:30 AM
I love google...but I dont care for toolbars of any kind....i have been using EMS FreeSurfer MK II for a long while......works great!

can be found here

http://www.webattack.com

under their freeware tab in the Browser Tools category

Its a great site for a lot of free and shareware utilities.