This is the single best command ever created for windows in my opinion. It has been there in past versions of window and still exists in Vista. You can control many things with this command but I particularly like it because it controls programs that start automatically. These are also the programs that are using valuable memory. This causes you computer to take longer to load and can slow it down. That is to say if there are a lot of them it can drastically slows down your computer. I have seen times it would take for ever to load. They are running in the background. This can also put needless strain on your hard drive.
How Do I do this?
Left click on the start button. Select Run. Type in MSCONFIG. It is not case sensitive so you don't need to worry about upper and lower case letters. Hit enter. You will see the System Configuration Utility screen come up. Click on the startup tab. Now remove ALL the check boxes in the startup item section. Click apply and then OK when your done. A screen will come up saying to reboot or not. In any case these changes will not take place until you reboot the computer. When the computer does reboot you will need to click the check box in the lower left corner. This will keep the screen from coming up each time you boot the computer.
Now!! You need to go right back into the same screen in the same manner you did before. Click on the startup tab again. Figure out which check box is for your Anti virus and other critical programs that must be running. Normally you need to click on your printer. Therefore you click any box the says HP or whatever your printer is. Click apply again and OK and let the computer reboot. You can just not click these off to start with but I did it this way for beginners. I feel they will more fully understand the effect.
This time you should have only the programs you really need running.
DO NOT mess with any other tabs in this utility unless you know what they are. Especially do not change the SYSTEM.INI or WIN.INI tabs. you could cause the computer not to boot or worse if you do.
Your computer should now run faster in most cases. If you still have a slow computer you nay have a Virus or something else is wrong. See a professional if you are still having problems.
Dennis is a Microsoft A+ Certified Technician with over 15 years of experience. He has a very informative computer blog and website that goes into how to solve numerous computer related problems as well as providing general computer tips, reviews and advice. See:http://www.pcinfospace.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dennis_Levenhagen |
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