Startup programs help

Many Thanks everyone for taking to time to help me out with this. I think initially I will delay them for a while and if all ok then disable them.

Once again many thanks.

Andy

whs said:

marsmimar said:

This is a personal opinion. Others may disagree. But I went into msconfig and disabled everything except my antivirus suite. No problems experienced. Anything that was disabled at startup is still available if and when I need to run it. The good thing about msconfig is if you disable something and find out it needs to run at startup, you can always go back in and enable it. No harm, no foul. :)

No disagreement at all. that's the way to do it. I may add that you also want to retain the ones you have started yourself - e.g. sidebar ( Gadgets ) or Rocket Dock or similar.

I agree with WHS, marsmimar, and others.

I also suggest checking your startup items from time to time...
You may be clean today, but next week might be different.

Some programs you want and install, may include "add on" things you don't want or need.
Usually you can decline the add ons, but you have to read all the install screens/instructions.

If you do turn off "Auto Update startups" for programs you use, it may become your responsibility to manually check for updates.
I suggest using Secunia PSI (ver 2) periodically to check your PC for updates needed.

Others may disagree, but that's my approach for an "ongoing" strategy...

Well I ws going to delay the startup of most of the processes but I could only find enable or disable.

How does one delay startup please ?

Andyonline said:

Brian, attached is the startup screen I hope you meant

Yeah, that's a lot of stuff stuffed in the startup. I thought Lenovo was good about keeping the bloat down. In fact, aren't they known for their "rapidboot" PC's?

Thanks WHS I will take a look at this