My pc is really slow on start up

Browntoa

andipandi wrote: »

yes, they run in the system tray on the right at bottom next to clock,right click on programs you don't want running and click shut down or exit.

not all the running processes are shown in the system tray

andipandi_2

sirboz wrote: »

This is just what i need as well

a couple of days ago I ran defrag & cc cleaner but didnt really make much difference I have a 2.7ghz with only 256mb , I think the 256mb is my problem

is it easy to tell which programmes I have running on start up ?

also get more memory,1 gig would do nicely,you need twice what you got i reckon,more memory is the best way to speed pc up.

andipandi_2

Browntoa wrote: »

not all the running processes are shown in the system tray

i know but a good place to start

Blacksheep1979

LittleJo wrote: »

Hi.
Not wishing to hijack this thread but my desktop is full, does it really slow down performance?
Jo

yes it does and if people don't believe me try putting 10 or so dvd iso's on th desktop or multiple shortcuts and time your loading time before and after.

MercilessKiller

? Thats weird advice blacksheep. My desktop is absolutely full and runs perfect.

Its more to do with teh RAM than the icons on your desktop! Also the programs taht start up with the computer such as those listed in MSCONFIG (not next to the clock, as a lot of programs might not show an icon such as spyware)

If you have 256mb of RAM and running windows xp, then dont do anything apart from get more RAM to be honest.

If you have more RAM and its running slow, just make sure your not doing TOO much for the computer to handle. With 512mb of RAM its going to be hard to run a million things at once so keep things basic and simple. Clean it all up

THink of it as a bedroom. The smaller the room the less things you can have in it, otherwise you cant find anything and takes ages to do everything!!!!!!!!!

MercilessKiller

MercilessKiller wrote: »

? Thats weird advice blacksheep. My desktop is absolutely full and runs perfect.

Its more to do with teh RAM than the icons on your desktop! Also the programs taht start up with the computer such as those listed in MSCONFIG (not next to the clock, as a lot of programs might not show an icon such as spyware)

If you have 256mb of RAM and running windows xp, then dont do anything apart from get more RAM to be honest.

If you have more RAM and its running slow, just make sure your not doing TOO much for the computer to handle. With 512mb of RAM its going to be hard to run a million things at once so keep things basic and simple. Clean it all up

THink of it as a bedroom. The smaller the room the less things you can have in it, otherwise you cant find anything and takes ages to do everything!!!!!!!!!

p.s Theres a diff between having 10GB worth of data on the desktop, and having 100 1kb icons....

Blacksheep1979

yes but the links get buffered as well - and where do you think all that stuff gets buffered? Yes in the ram - so more stuff being buffered = less free memory which is the same as having less to start with....

and yes it may run perfectly - but time how quicly it starts up with all that and without...

Keanosafc

I'll try msconfig,

I haven't much ram but it's not always as slow as it has been. The pc is a few years old and I'm just hanging on to buy a new one with more ram etc.

Millionaire

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

yes but the links get buffered as well - and where do you think all that stuff gets buffered? Yes in the ram - so more stuff being buffered = less free memory which is the same as having less to start with....

and yes it may run perfectly - but time how quicly it starts up with all that and without...

Blacksheep is Technically correct.

The Icons still need to be processed on startup and the more you have the more time it takes. It may only be a slight difference esp ( probs not even a 1 second here or there) if your running with more than enough RAM.

But systems with low or limited RAM the difference can increase by a few secs to see the icons appear indivdually one by one which adds time to an already slow system startup.

sirboz

got quite a few things listed when I run msconfig but cant copy & paste them

2 for my printer which i rarely use
AOL tray icon
AOL internet checkup
ebaytbdaemon
zhotkey
printtray
jusched
qttask
dslstat
dslagent
avgcc
ctfmon
pcsync2

etc etc