Shoutbox

Does anyone know how 2 make statup faster and get rid of annoying thinks loading at startup?

My computer is driving me crazy with annoying slow startups in which i have to wait forever to let programs i dont even use to load e.g. quicktime.

Go look into the settings of the programs you don't wanna startup automaticly and tell it not to do so.

I've tryed that but quicktime has no option.

I've heard of msgconfig but what is it?

start/run/ and type msconfig click the startup tab and you can close the programs you don't need.

Try deleting some things, running Virus scans and Syware scans and generally cleaning up ur computer. Remove programs you don't need.

Also go:

Start > Run >  type: msconfig and go to the 'StartUp' tab, and untick anyhting on there that you don't need running when you start up your computer.

Hopefully this will help you get a speedier startup.

msconfig stands for Microsoft System Configuration Tool.  You can shoose what services, programs and drivers to boot.  But be carefull you don't turn off a driver or system resources you don't you need that will mess up your machine BUT you can choose Startup tab and uncheck almost all the prgrams from stopping from booting.

Thanks alot for all your help but which programs are safe to not be allowed to start up because some are needed by windows to work.

Thinks like Antivirus, Adobe products, Spyware Scanners.  But leave programs with pathis c:/windows  Those are needed but most everything else can be unchecked.

There isn't anything in msconfig that makes windows work. You should keep any graphics drivers and antivrus programs on there though. If you are unsure, look across and see what it says for the root directory.

Yes there is stuff in c:/windows root directory and sub diretory to my knowledge windows needs that to boot up properly.