Ditto Bob, you spoke for me also. Looking forward to hearing some tips on
speeding things up.
I read on a friends blog that about ten years ago, most pages consisted of
only about ??? bits, bits or whatever, now they have more than ??? bits. A
huge change, says he.
Let me know if you have any more computer questions, as you can see, I'm
hip.
Harry
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Robert Rentfro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can I, the biggest computer maladroit any of you know, figure out what
> should be running on this machine when it is turned on?
>
> One issue: It is lately stupid slow (it is, btw, an HP Pavilion 555y),
> lots
> of freezing up ("program not responding"). Another is it takes almost four
> minutes on start up before you can do anything and those four minutes are
> spent with the hard drive churning non-stop, little light full on. Another
> issue: the kids somehow got my space, my space messenger, windows live
> messenger, aim, and something else to open every time I start this
> machine.
> I have to sit and wait until they are done with their gyrations to close
> them.and this is after I have to wait the initial four minutes.
>
> I'm running Spysweeper with the virus protection. It finds lots of crap
> every time it does a sweep. Doesn't seem to help performance, however.
>
> I seem to remember once going to something like "msconfig" or something
> like
> that and seeing a list of all the stuff that should be running in the
> background and being amazed at all the crap that was running. I vaguely
> remember deselecting stuff and performance improved.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get to that list and what I should have running
> and how to get rid of the crap?
>
>
>
> Lots of questions but I'm a computer special needs guy solidly on the tech
> short bus.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Bob R
>
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