I dont know what would be the reaction of people when they know that I love spending first ten minutes of my office hours watching Windows start up.
But if you wish to overcome this hassle, the tips given below will help you to start Windows much faster and quickly.
Reduce the load from your slow Vista.
Every time it starts, the system loads numerous programs.
All the icons you see in your system tray, i.e. the area adjacent to the clock, depict autostart programs.
Also, there are undoubtedly some other programs on your system which automatically start but its not easy to sense their presence.
The noticeable fact is every auto-start program increases the boot time (a little or great deal) of your machine. Since many of them keep running in the background, they have had a little impact on your performance.
Before starting the process of eliminating autoloaders, it is essential to ascertain that you can undo the changes. Click the Close option after having created the restore point.
Windows Vista users need to select Start, then Control Panel and then System. Click System Protection on the right hand side of the window, under Tasks. Then you will see the System Properties dialog box on your screen, from which you have to select Create at the bottom of the window.
If you are an MS XP user, then select the Start button, click on Run, type msconfig and press Enter button. In case of Vista, select Start, key in msconfig into the Search box, and hit Enter key.
As you click on the Startup tab, a list of autoloading programs will be displayed. Each program will show a check box. If you uncheck an item in a check box, it will stop that application from loading at startup.
Select your autoloading programs. That is the programs you should leave checked in order to allow them to autoload.
First and the most important thing is that you would never want your PC to run without the protetion of firewall, antivirus and other security programs.
Though having these programs installed in your machine may slow down the boot-up and shutdown speed and even lead to conflicts, the cost incurred will be much more in case these programs do not run on your PC.
Apply your own wisdom for any other program in the list. While selecting the program, dont ask if this program is good instead ask do you need this program all the time?
Following unchecking of those programs that you dont want to autoload at the start up, click the OK option and reboot the system. A wordy message box will appear on the Windows and gives an impression that an error message has emerged.
You have to simply check Dont show this message or start the System Configuration Utility at the time Windows starts (in Vista you will find a little bit difference in wording) at the bottom of dialog box and then click OK.