Windows 7: How to change the order of startup programs

I stopped using startup managers like WinPatrol because they add to Startup time and can have issues.



Best to just turn off everything except AV and gadgets unless there's one or two others you can't wait to startup when needed. Windows 7 performance will show its appreciation.

Agreed. When I went from Mcafee to MSE, MSE even found a Trojan missed by Mcafee.
If you do switch, be sure to use the uninstall tool provided by Mcafee.

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Sometimes you will find that you also need to also let the synaptics touchpad driver install.

Greg has given you some excellent advice. If you would like you can use the following procedure and we can look at precisely what msconfig shows as starting.

LIST OF STARTUP PROGRAMS USING CCLEANER


CCleaner | Tasks icon | Startup tab | click on Save to text file button (bottom right side)

Using the PAPER CLIP icon in the top panel of a Message Reply window, attach the .txt file generated by CCleaner.

Each to their own of course Greg. I've used WP for years and suffered only one minor glitch with a particular update. Otherwise it's always saved me far more boot time than it costs. When I installed Soluto (for a looksee) it calculated that WP added under two seconds. It suits me because it delivers the volume of starts I require in 44 seconds, whereas Windows/msconfig is over a minute.

Remove McAfee and install MSE....problem solved.

I have to agree. I use it all the time (the pro version) and never had a problem. I like it especially for easy of delaying startups. Besides it is a good watchdog.

For the every day user, MSCONFIG is plenty. For the advanced user, there is autoruns, procexp, and procmon.

If you have no startups besides AV and gadgets, which gives best performance, why would you need WinPatrol or Soluto? To delay System services?

Just askin.