Hey readers,
I would like to talk with you about optimizing the windows start up process. Does it sometimes take forever for your windows xp machine to load when you reboot? Do you often get frustrated that your machine seems to run slower then normal? I have a quick tip that can help you remedy this problem.
- Go to your start menu, and choose the run box on the right hand side towards the bottom.
- IN the run box type msconfig and hit the ok button
- IN this box that pops up, choose the startup tab at the top.
- IN this list you will notice a bunch of things checked off.
- You need to uncheck the programs that you know are not neccessary or not needed to start up with windows.
You really need to experiment here, as you may not be sure what some of these things are, but by simply looking, you can see some that you may not need. One of the entries may be something like the quicktime player which is labled as qqtask. You do not need this to start with windows, because when you go to view content that needs a media player to run it, it will start up automatically upon request. If you look towards the right, you will see a command table, this is generally where the file is, and what it is called, and what it does. You can expand this table by dragging the slider at the top of that table to the right or left. The location tab is usually a registry entry, and you shouldn’t need to worry too much about that. This can help you lower some of the loads on windows system start ups as well as decrease the number of consuming processes that may run with windows that are not needed.
When you go to close this box, it will say that the changes will not be present until you restart windows. You can restart now, or later, the choice is up to you. When windows loads again, you will see a confirmation box come up, this just tells you that your system configuration has since changed, and you should choose not to warn you again, and at this point you should be fine. A good thing to do before you make any of these changes is to take a baseline snap shot of what you have currently running. You can press control + alt + del at the same time to bring up the task manager, look at the lower left corner of the task manager box, adn write down how many processes you have running, and the cpu usage, then make your start up changes and after you reboot, bring up the task manager again to see how many processes and cpu usages there are. You should see your numbers are less n ow!
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