Slow system

Shootist said:

You are welcome. Hope it all works out for you.

I have to add that many will say there is no reason to stop services. Win 7 is as lean and mean as any OS MS has ever released. And that it will take care of itself.
I think differently. In fact I posted this on another thread.
I just installed another 8GBs of RAM in my system. Bringing the total to 16GBs.
When I had only 8GBs my page files usage at startup was under 1GB in size. With this other 8GBs of RAM installed you would think the page file usage size would go down as the system has more RAM to use. NO the page file is now 1.4+GBs at startup with the exact same services running. Seems kind of ASS BACKWARDS to me.

Yes, that does sound rather backwards to me also. Wonder if anyone can explain why?

Uncheck everything in msconfig>Startup except AV and gadgets - all others are freeloaders on your RAM/CPU, Startup and can spy on you. Startup Programs - Change

After several restarts, find out what is writing itself back into Startup list, then turn it off in its Preferences.

Next hide all MS Services in msconfig>Services to see what else is starting without your knowledge. Uncheck the items and restart to check performance. If they write themselves back in, turn them off in Preferences or uninstall them.

Other Win7 troubleshooting tips: Computer lags every couple seconds

Thanks for the advice. I appreciate it. Only thing running in msconfig is my anti-virus software and Intellipoint because I have the mouse buttons configured and if I turn that off, my buttons don't work the way I want them to. Other than that, nothing else is loading. As far as the services, I've gone through the list of services that was prepared by Black Viper and have followed his advice. The changes I made this morning seem to have helped and I honestly think it was the Corel software I recently installed that was messing up.

Again, thanks for the advice.

I was not referring to Black Viper service edits which are outmoded with Win7, which is as lean as it can be and requires no tweaking.

If you read the steps I gave you carefully you'll see I was referring to how program sneak into the msconfig>Services tab and how to keep them out - just as with the Startup tab.

Try uninstalling the Corel software long enough to see what happens.

I know what you were talking about and if you read my message I said that I had already taken care of MSCONFIG. The first thing I do when I get a new computer is get rid of all the "bloatware" and make sure only one or two things I really need are running in the background. And the Black Viper list has been updated for Windows 7, which is not quite as lean as you say it is. There are still processess running that are not necessary and need to be either disabled or set to manual.

LarryE1946 said:

I know what you were talking about and if you read my message I said that I had already taken care of MSCONFIG. The first thing I do when I get a new computer is get rid of all the "bloatware" and make sure only one or two things I really need are running in the background. And the Black Viper list has been updated for Windows 7, which is not quite as lean as you say it is. There are still processess running that are not necessary and need to be either disabled or set to manual.

I agree with you on turning off some services that I do not need. One is the WLan service. I don't have a Wireless card in my desktop PC, no need to have that service running. I also don't use the windows firewall, that is set to manual. Home group services are set to manual. I don't use the home group I have it setup as a work network PC.

In any event many say Win 7 is lean. Not in my opinion.

More advanced users may find services they personally don't use to turn off, but when average users try to use service edits they can run into unintended consequences.

Many of us who lived by Black Viper's service Edits in XP and early Vista watched over a year's time as Windows 7 developed to where service edits and tweaks outside of normal System Settings are not needed and counterproductive.

The way to go with Win7 if you need additinoal performance is hardware upgrading.

Those who insist on tweaking and editing WIn7 services should bookmark our Crashes forum as this is where they will end up if they don't know exactly what they're doing.

Tips for cleaning up factory bloatware based on hundreds done here: Clean Reinstall steps