I have a question about Things that slow down system bootup. I run windows xp. My task manager shows 40 to 44 task at start up. I eliminated all my auto updates and that helped a little. The problem I have is that I do not know which Task to eliminate from start up. What is neccessary and what is not . My cpu's run 2--5 that seems ok. Memory is 512 with 80% free space after defrag. Thanks for any help anyone can give me.

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3rd party Firewalls add some time. The more things running in the system tray the longer the boot time. For me though I noticed when I uninstalled the 3rd party software Firewall my boot time picked up by about 30 seconds.

Steve

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Thanks Steve, I only run one firewall (Mcafee).I turned off the windows firewall. I was told that it was not a good idea to run more than one firewall. My boot time did improve but it is still very slow. About two minutes or more.I was just looking at the task manager and I do not know which are safe to turn off. Thanks again.


On Sunday, May 1, 2005 at 4:40 pm, Steve wrote:
>3rd party Firewalls add some time. The more things running in the system tray
>the longer the boot time. For me though I noticed when I uninstalled the 3rd party
>software Firewall my boot time picked up by about 30 seconds.

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Turning off firewall is not good these days. I'm Behind a Router now on the Main Home Network, and don't use software firewalls on the network anymore, and on a Compuiter I use for Web surfing in the evening not on the Router Network I use just the XP Firewall. Just giving you a Idea of what may cause longer boot times.

Steve

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I had always relied on www.blackviper.com to get the list of needed processes for XP. That site does not appear to be working anymore it would be a great loss if he stopped his web site. This is an alternative one that is decent. http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm Hope this helps.


On Sunday, May 1, 2005 at 5:04 pm, Steve wrote:
>Turning off firewall is not good these days. I'm Behind a Router now on the Main
>Home Network, and don't use software firewalls on the network anymore, and on a Compuiter
>I use for Web surfing in the evening not on the Router Network
>I use just the XP Firewall. Just giving you a Idea of what may cause longer boot
>times. :) http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm X-( www.blackviper.com

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Try visiting this web site and entering the name of a file listed in the Process tab in Task Manager. The site may give you a better idea of whether or not you can uncheck the file on the MSCONFIG Startup tab. http://www.processlibrary.com/


On Sunday, May 1, 2005 at 3:59 pm, Ken wrote:
>I have a question about Things that slow down system bootup. I run windows xp.
>My task manager shows 40 to 44 task at start up. I eliminated all my auto updates
>and that helped a little. The problem I have is that I do not know which Task to
>eliminate from start up. What is neccessary and what is not . My cpu's run 2--5 that
>seems ok. Memory is 512 with 80% free space after defrag. Thanks for any help anyone
>can give me.
>
>

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