Vista - How do I control what is loaded on startup in Vista?

New to Vista. I understand there's some way (built into Vista) to determine
or discontinue certain startup applications in Vista. I've installed some
software that keeps loading something when I boot up and I want to eliminate
it because my Vista load time is dropping quite a bit.

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 06:44:01 -0700, "Steve Turner"
<stevezygote@xxxxxx> wrote:

On each program you don't want to start automatically, check its
Options to see if it has the choice not to start (make sure you
actually choose the option not to run it, not just a "don't show icon"
option). Many can easily and best be stopped that way. If that doesn't
work, run MSCONFIG from the Start | Run line, and on the Startup tab,
uncheck the programs you don't want to start automatically.

However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose of
running the minimum number of programs. Despite what many people tell
you, you should be concerned, not with how *many* of these programs
you run, but *which*. Some of them can hurt performance severely, but
others have no effect on performance.

Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you should do
is determine what each program is, what its value is to you, and what
the cost in performance is of its running all the time. You can get
more information about these at
http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html. If you can't find it there,
try google searches and ask about specifics here.

Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent informed
decision about what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of.


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Hello Steve,

You may also like to have a look at this tutorial

Startup Programs - Enable or Disable

Hope it helps

SIW2

This may also help make your PC faster!

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/...disable_1.html


tx, av


"Steve Turner" <stevezygote@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you can't find where the program is starting using simple tools like WinPatrol then try AutoRuns. There's so many ways to load up a program during boot that it will make your head spin.

One can always use the inbuilt MSCONFIG tool to disable startups or try
freeware WinPatrol which is very easy to use.


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That's what I thought too until I looked at AutoRuns. Take a look for yourself and
you'll see it's nearly impossible to control startups manually. There's too many holes.

And then for a real nightmare check out the hidden tasks in Scheduled Tasks. I've had this PC since April 2007 and I'm still turning stuff off!! It's a bit ridiculous and just provides ammo to the Vista haters. I hope they reconfigure this beast so everything under the sun isn't running the HD out of the box.