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i was posting for the pomp factor.
Start>>All Programs>>Startup

And i'm also surprised that its taken how ever many posts
above to actually mention that its not the safest route
and can cause all kinds of problems to your system.

I personally think that should have been made aware of
as soon as "Turning Off Services" was mentioned.
But thats just me.

Well the thread isnt to teach users how to turn off services, it is about how I cope with such little memory lol.

I dont like to advise people to turn services off unless they know what they are doing and understand what they are turning off. You will be amazed at how many people have seen me do it in the past, tried it and then phoned me up cos summit isnt working on their machine.

There is a bit more detail in Waddi's thread of how to keep your system running smooth, turning off certain things etc. But this thread was originally about my stupid memory usage hehe.

In MSCONFIG, if you click the startup tab, thats where you can disable programs from starting up, which is the way most additonal software are started up (as opposed to services).

within the startup tab, you can disable as many or as little of these in the list that you want, but it will not cause problems.

The more you turn off, the better as there is less to load at startup, and therefore, less running from then on and less memory usage

Joe come on...
By turning of my
antivirus
Firewall

And all kinds of Mini Managers looking after graphics
wifi and blue tooth printer spooler and loads of
other stuff wrapped up in my laptop manufactures stuff.

You cant honestly say by turning off as many of those as
you want is safe?

Its not.
And will cause problems.

To offer this kind of advice there has to be warning too
of potential problems and risks.

Someone reading this could follow your advice and never
see the sun again lol.

I bet your start up lists isnt fully turned off Joe?

Mine is, including MS Text Services

Yours would be

Lol

Actually Mark, you're right, mine isn't, but thats because I have the following still ticked (this is just in the STARTUP tab only)

MSN
Zone Alarm
AVG

and thats it

because thats all I need

and I think you'll find..it is safe as the items in the list are only optional, additional programs ontop of your services (which are shown in the....you guessed it - SERVICES tab)

As I've said, you'll find a lot of viruses, trojans and spyware can be disabled by unticking them from the STARTUP list

I do agree with mark, i think desktop/tower pc's will be best for msconfig but
laptops on the other hand will have the manufacturer's applications
also running such as wireless etc so you'll need to know what your disabling.

Yeah, you do need to know what you're disabling, but its clearly there stating what it is and where the file is located...

so if you use your bluetooth for example....

you just dont untick the one that says "Bluetooth"

simple.....surely pomp??

Most manufacturers software isnt needed to start up, its only for quick access to changing things like display settings e.t.c which 99% of the the time can be accessed from the control panel anyway.

Well look at it this way Joe:

The average person wouldnt know what the likes of these are for:

- hpztsb11
- hphmon06
- Ltmoh
- SynTPEnh
- Ati2mdxx
- jusched
- atiptaxx

But these are all examples of common services that people have running on their computers and none are actually needed, but their not very clear as to what they actually do or are for unless ye have quite a good knowledge of computers.

Also, some people might find the likes of the ATi quick panel handy. Me and you probably wouldnt as we know how to navigate Windows perfectly to get to the things we want to, but we have to remember that to the average user, control panel is something they very really step into.

Thats why I suggest using Windows Startup Inspector - It tells you what the programs actually are and do so you can decide if you want to enable or disable them.

Basically, if you're using MSCONFIG in the first place, you must have some idea of what you're doing lol

and I think you mean "rarely"

Unless of course the person has seen a thread like this and decided to have a go lol.

Well... 14 days uptime now, or for the benefit of any pomps reading this post, thats 2 weeks or a year minus 50 weeks.

Lol

Well... am into 15 days now! But there was an issue that nearly forced me into rebooting.

The only bug I have found in CS3 came back to haunt me. The easy way to fix it is to uninstall, reboot and re-install, and I needed to use it lol.

But instead of doing this I used my nod and just installed CS2!

Works perfect and keeps me uptime