Tips to hasten your windows bootup.

• ditzy

  20 Sep 04, 19:53

  Try reducing the number of shortcut icons on your desktop to the bare minimum. Recycle bin excluded. This saves your system from having to fetch too much data when booting up. Try putting all your shortcuts into one folder on your desktop.
  
  Do you really need so much items running in the system tray at startup? Ask yourself. Do you really need winamp agent, Realplayer, MS office, or MSN to startup with you? Turn off their auto startups. System resources are taken up again as above.
  
  For those who can do without the extra chioness and animation effects of their desktop can choose to revert back to the classic style via their display properties. You can still use newer start menu as in XP style.
  
  Do a regular defrag of your system once a month would be good. Clean up your registry as well. You wouldn't want windows to load things that don't exist on your system anymore. Even better, clean up your shell context menus, take away the things you don't need. Its that little menu that pops out when u highlight a file and right click on it.
  
  Don't display any wallpaper. For the really concious. Please don't throw stones at me.
• Parka

  20 Sep 04, 20:22

  By right, the things that should startup together should be the firewall and antivirus. Others come second.
• paperduck

  21 Sep 04, 04:20

  following ur tip..only keep the wallpaper.
  
  desktop without wallpaper look sux.
• Sagara

  21 Sep 04, 05:22

  Go to Start > Run > msconfig to disable those useless startup items
  
  Use Spybot Search N Destroy to scan and Spywareblaster to block ActiveX spyware..
  
  Scan regularly for viruses using online websites like Housecall Antivirus
  
  Defrag your OS drive and
  
  Add more RAM
• ditzy

  21 Sep 04, 09:15

  Where got ugly? See, so clean and clear, easy on the eyes also.
  
  
• paperduck

  21 Sep 04, 11:20

  then what about taskbar? i del most shortcut, but add on to taskbar.
  
  
• SnowFlag

  21 Sep 04, 11:22

  i startup my computer, then i do something else b4 i come back
• weidev

  21 Sep 04, 11:38

  Try reducing the number of shortcut icons on your desktop to the bare minimum. Recycle bin excluded. This saves your system from having to fetch too much data when booting up. Try putting all your shortcuts into one folder on your desktop.
  
  i onli have 2 shoutcuts all the while...
  
  Do you really need so much items running in the system tray at startup? Ask yourself. Do you really need winamp agent, Realplayer, MS office, or MSN to startup with you? Turn off their auto startups. System resources are taken up again as above.
  
  i dun use winamp, i dun use realplayer, but hw do u switch off auto startup for office and msn?
  
  For those who can do without the extra chioness and animation effects of their desktop can choose to revert back to the classic style via their display properties. You can still use newer start menu as in XP style.
  
  i am pleased with my currrent setting...
  
  Do a regular defrag of your system once a month would be good. Clean up your registry as well. You wouldn't want windows to load things that don't exist on your system anymore. Even better, clean up your shell context menus, take away the things you don't need. Its that little menu that pops out when u highlight a file and right click on it.
  
  hw do i noe which files r nt in use anymore? shell context? me blur...
  
  Don't display any wallpaper. For the really concious. Please don't throw stones at me.
  
  impossible... i need to see yuna everyday...
• eutjin

  21 Sep 04, 11:48

  Originally posted by weidev:

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  i dun use winamp, i dun use realplayer, but hw do u switch off auto startup for office and msn?
  

  goto Run and type msconfig.
  
  go to the tab called Startup. disable as required. pls not to disable things u need .... if u do that, go back in and enable it.
• ditzy

  21 Sep 04, 13:38

  Originally posted by paperduck:

  then what about taskbar? i del most shortcut, but add on to taskbar.
  
  

  Same effect, anything you see straight away is a direct load to resources.
• vroomvroom

  21 Sep 04, 13:50

  thanks for the tips
• crazy_prata

  21 Sep 04, 13:54

  Originally posted by ditzy:

  Where got ugly? See, so clean and clear, easy on the eyes also.
  
  

  go get a life for your desktop man
• ditzy

  21 Sep 04, 13:56

  Originally posted by crazy_prata:

  go get a life for your desktop man

  My life doesn't involve staring at pretty pictures on my desktop.
• paperduck

  21 Sep 04, 14:36

  Originally posted by crazy_prata:

  go get a life for your desktop man

  agree X2.
  
  how can a pretty gal without pretty dress.
  
  
• ditzy

  21 Sep 04, 15:11

  That is one helluva crowded taskbar. Can't stand a cluttered taskbar.
• extremex

  21 Sep 04, 15:43

  got all the basics, the rest access by start menu unless freqly clicked on desktop can le
• paperduck

  21 Sep 04, 16:24

  Originally posted by ditzy:

  That is one helluva crowded taskbar. Can't stand a cluttered taskbar.

  cos i using Opera so taskbar wont look pack when i open many Browser.
• ditzy

  21 Sep 04, 16:58

  Originally posted by paperduck:

  cos i using Opera so taskbar wont look pack when i open many Browser.

  Thats not what I meant lah, I use FireFox also got tabbed browsing. But your taskbar is sibeh cluttered. Squeezy.
• paperduck

  28 Sep 04, 07:48

  another new skill ,
  
  open any folder, go to [tool] , [folder option], under [task] change to classic.
  
  with all the setting from me and ditzy...you windowsXP look will as same as win98
  
  only loading speed turn faster.
• b3nd d0wn

  29 Sep 04, 22:19

  
  my wallpaper-less desktop
  i don't have "quick launch" toolbar so as not to clutter taskbar
  use keyboard shortcut when you are surfing net
• kopiosatu

  29 Sep 04, 22:23

  or you could purchase a new PC!!!!!