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  • March 25th, 2007, 02:36 PM
    benrober
    Quote Originally Posted by PoonDoggy View Post
    I was surprised at how much auto starts. msconfig cannot compare to this little utility. Now to figure out what i can disable/delete without messing up my computer.
    How dare you say those things about msconig...maybe i will have to check this little utility out.
  • March 25th, 2007, 10:51 AM
    Milwaukee
    Wow I have over 250 to 300 start up That why it got 1 min 25 seconds boot up.


    That must be best software
  • March 25th, 2007, 08:59 AM
    PoonDoggy
    I was surprised at how much auto starts. msconfig cannot compare to this little utility. Now to figure out what i can disable/delete without messing up my computer.
  • March 25th, 2007, 12:28 AM
    benrober
    Another was you can do this through windows is by opening the run window:

    start menu>run

    and then typing msconfig and then selecting that tab about startup, you can deselect everything you don't want to startup with windows.
  • March 25th, 2007, 12:17 AM
    quickoldcar
    I've been using this for years,works great.

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/AbsoluteControl_d545.html

    Also for those who disable stuff in msconfig there is also a cleaner for those stubborn ones.

    http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/...-Cleanup.shtml

    and while I'm at it if anybody doesn't know about crapcleaner here is link for that.

    http://www.ccleaner.com/ Just uncheck "add yahoo toolbar" ,or if you somehow like yahoo toolbar then leave it.
  • March 25th, 2007, 12:05 AM
    kenboyles72
    I also use StartupCPL, very good. You can either disable or delete the entry.
  • March 24th, 2007, 11:54 PM
    sr71000
    hkcu means it is done through the registry. startup folder is like literally in your start --> all programs --> startup folder
  • March 24th, 2007, 11:52 PM
    ShawnD1
    Another good one is Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel
    http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

    Is there a difference between something booting from the start menu folder and starting through HKCU? Does one boot before the other or something?
  • March 24th, 2007, 10:57 PM
    bigblue77
    I am rather shocked at how much is actually starting up. I thought I had my startup slimmed down, but I guess I was wrong, way wrong.
  • March 24th, 2007, 06:32 PM
    Atomic Rooster
    Wow. I just ran that proggy. Man there's a lot of crap that starts up!
  • March 24th, 2007, 05:40 PM
    BBA

    Tired of things opening on bootup?

    Just found this nifty little thing MS has that finds every startup event anywhere in the system. It's called 'Autoruns for Windows' and you can get it here:

    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys.../autoruns.mspx

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