Computer startup
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I realised the time taken for my computer to startup is kinda slow nowadays? What is causing this? My startup refers to those icon which appear in system tray and msn to pop out and stuff..
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How many you have?
Make a count. -
roughly 10-12 icon in system tray. but when i just bought this laptop everything load very fast leh.
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perhaps you want to list out starup config so mayi can help you
go Run-->Msconfig--->startup -
MSN can be configured not to run on startup.
1. Open MSN
2. Click on Tools > Options
3. On the left, select Sign In
4. Untick this box: Automatically run Windows Live Messenger when I log on to Windows
5. Click OK to apply the settings
And others... see your msconfig first... -
no no, as in i still want it to run on startup just that the speed kinda slow nowadays just want to know what cause the slowing down of the speed
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If your computer is starting slow, it could be:
1. Virus, Spyware related or
2. Too many start-up processes.
For example, a windows XP Pro SP2 has about 30-40 processes when starting clean.
If you have anti-virus,
eg AVG = +4 processes
firewall, eg Zonealarm = + 2 processes
graphics card, eg intel = + 1, ati = +3 processes
anti spyware, eg spybot = +2, AVG anti spy also = +2
programming, eg, VS03, then u nid install IIS = +1, VS05 got another MSSQL app...
assuming 1 process = 8-32mb and takes 5-60secs, u go count yourself on the resource needed to start up and so on...
3. you hdd might be fragmented. so analyse and do a defrag if necessary.
cheers