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Originally posted by M73A
what would be causing the computer to do this?
You gave the solution yourself
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Originally posted by M73A
im just about to start disabling loads of startup programs...
Be very selective in what you load at startup. On the average computer, many stuff gets into those startup registry settings and startup menu's and stuff. Extremely many stuff of that is not needed at all, even despite what some software might say.
Also see "
CookieRevised's reply to Slow Startup"... including the links provided in that post. Read everything carefully
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(crop the image you've provided to only the important part, all the rest is useless and only takes up bandwidth. Not to mention the huge image distorts the thread layout)
As for what you can disable: You can disabled everything except
"AVG control center"
"MessengerPlus"
and maybe "Tablet Client Driver" (but, if it was a true driver it wouldn't be needed as a startup item, so I even doubt you need this too)
All the other stuff is in fact not needed at all and only simply sits there doing nothing. all the other stuff is not required to run windows or any tools you might have. Most of the stuff is simply for ""convenience"" (mind the strong quotes); stuff which is placed there by their manufactures in case you "might" wanna use the program; they are mostly absolutely not nessecairly.
But also note that what you showed is far from all the stuff which is started up when you boot up windows. There are many, extremely many, other places where stuff is automatically loaded. For a proper view of all this use AutoRuns, a program by SysInternals. More info on this can be found in the threads/links in the post I linked to at the beginning of this post..
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