possible computer problem

[Easy_Rider]

Some program "half load" into the memory on start-up and sit i your system tray (bottom right) and other fully load up (internet security etc) now not everything that loads up with the computer will be in that startup options menu, just the ones that are safe to uncheck.
Each program that starts up with the computer will naturally use precious resources, RAM, so the fewer you have starting up the quicker your computer will run, the only downside being when you want to run one of those startup programs they will take longer to load up as they haven't "half loaded" already, if that makes sense?

I'm glad that malwarebytes did the trick for you. Because its the fee version you'll have to manually update the definitions (second tap i think) and manually scan. I would recommend this once a week

 

[legrandefromage]

I would never suggest anything I havent done myself - I've done this on over a 1000 customer laptops plus my own.

From what I can remember, 'page memory' is important - every program on start-up nabs a bit of this (things like Lime Wire etc) which makes the computer slower and slower. It was one of the most common complaints I had to deal with.

I never asked how an Allen key was made but I use them all the time...

 

[drcarlos]

OK
So i un-tick all the boxes
which includes the stuff from my online security.i dont think i want to stop that from running on start up :?

I have also found something strange in the list that has be unticked,there is some BT stuff still in there that that isnt supposed to be there
but im still not convinced its totally safe to do it LGF :?

It was a standard thing to do in XP for the Comet, DSG group, Toshiba, Acer, ASUS, Samsung and HP service contracts while I was working at a service centre.

I cant remember the exact 'thing' it does but it only disables programmes in start up like MSN or viruses that send out multiple emails and stuff like that. Other security remains part of the core start-up process which you could only disable by removing the program. Things like AVG carry on as normal.

It edit the startup section of the Windows registry to tell windows not to start certain programs. Things like adobe reader, Winzip and Java (well pretty much everything you install from the web) like to phone home, check for updates and be ready to use immediately and the installer puts parts of them into the startup section of the registry. I'm sure no one would have a complaint that Adobe reader took 8 second to start instead of 5 if their computer was running faster the rest of the time.
All that LGF's advice does is stop them starting up everytime Windows starts. Thing to do is do as he says and the restart seeing how much faster it is, then enable the bits you do actually need. The easiest way to tell what each line does is by looking at the install path in 'program files' as each program has it's own directory like 'C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 8.0' is where the adobe pack would live. You can certainly disable that one with no harm done.

Carl.

Carl.