Laptop is sooo slow starting up

GunJack

thelawns wrote: »

The problem is, you then have spybot or ccleaner running on startup too!

no you don't, you've just used them do toggle the other processes off/on...they save messing directly with the registry. They don't have to run in the background to do this.

thelawns

It must do, otherwise how will it tell programs not to run on startup?

GunJack

twilight zone anyone :rotfl:

GunJack

thelawns wrote: »

It must do, otherwise how will it tell programs not to run on startup?

you just use them to set the registry keys on or off, but without deleting them. job done

e.g. open spybot, switch of reg key for something, exit spybot. The reg key remains off until you go back in and switch it on again, even after re-boot.

aliEnRIK

thelawns wrote: »

It must do, otherwise how will it tell programs not to run on startup?

the lawns

no disrespect ~ but please get your facts straight

If I need to explain WHY to you then you clearly dont know what your talking about

You also suggested to FIX using hijack at first (Which could have ended in disaster)

And preventing AVGs tray icon from running isnt going to change anything as AVG will still be running regardless (In fact id rather it WAS left running in case it cant be gotten to any other way in some weird TROJAN case or suchlike)

thelawns

I tried spybot a while ago and it kept coming on at startup. Some teatimer thing loaded also, so i stopped them in the registry.

Sorry I may seem pedantic, but I like the resources to stay at max where possible, lol!

aliEnRIK

thelawns wrote: »

I tried spybot a while ago and it kept coming on at startup. Some teatimer thing loaded also, so i stopped them in the registry.

Sorry I may seem pedantic, but I like the resources to stay at max where possible, lol!

teatimers a nightmare (And can be unticked on install or stopped from running from within spybot)
Spybot DOES have a very usefull startup feature of keeping the HOSTS files nice and clean though (NOT a part of 'tea timer')

aliEnRIK

I also suggested CCLEANER as it should clean some cr*p out of the computer (Possibly speeding it up if its really bad)

GunJack

thelawns wrote: »

I tried spybot a while ago and it kept coming on at startup.

Big mistake using tea-timer....over-zealous and can conflict with "proper" security progs...

You can turn this off from within spybot...mode-advanced-resident, leave SD helper on (the browser immuniser feature, but turn off tea-timer. Spybot then doesn't run on start-up

GunJack

stevem999 - sorry, not forgotten 'bout you

As suggested, a bl00dy good cleanout and defrag will help you. run CCleaner (as mentioned, registry scan, fix all findings after backing up when prompted, then run cleaner part and let it delete everything.

open My Computer, right-click on your hard drive, select properties. click disk cleanup, and before you click ok when it's scanned, click the options tab, and click to clean up all old restore points and shadow copies. On vista, this part alone will clear out many GB from your drive. It may take a few minutes.

Once this is all done, get Defraggler from filehippo, and defrag your HDD.