Whats slowing up my startup? Event Viewer shows lots of problems!

pbcopter said:

It is not a beta driver on the Intel site that I recommended in Post #45 but I think it is moot at this point.

Yep, it's moot. I just thought I'd explain why I suggested the previous version.

Your input on this thread has been very helpful - saved me from scratching my head too hard.

Bill
.

Fair enough Alan (Old Timer-TFC)- it's your machine.. I give no dictates unless I know that it needs to be done - everything is a recommended course of action. I've run TFC times - not a regular requirement, but it does a nice job of cleaning out the dust weevils in all of the nooks and crannies of Windows.

As an alternative, you could run cCleaner (already offered) or the std Windows Disk Cleanup on the property page of the partition (drive). Again, it is a recommended best practices - you might just want to enjoy the new startup time for a while before diving into another round.

Startup time went from 4 minutes 21 seconds to 50 seconds - Excellent news!

Hey, you're getting pretty good at this acronym stuff.

Before I forget, check your Startup tab in msconfig. The only thing that really should be there is Bitdefender AV, but even that is questionable. AV pgms do two things at startup - a quick survey and self protect. Both are important protection mechanisms, so the trick is to find the setting in the application that allows those operations, but does not allow overkill at startup (product news, virus definitions, transaction protect when you're not yet connected, etc.). The other Bitdefender stuff [wallet, etc.] can wait to load after the normal system services. Unfortunately I don't know enough about BD and can't seem to find the official settings information.

A quick google search returned: BitDefender - Never load BitDefender interface at start-up for information on the Bitdefender startup settings. Changing the msconfig might be fruitless if BD keeps putting it back

You're welcome, it was my pleasure.

Bill
.

Ok, thanks Alan - let me know if BD puts the startup items back. I might have to get out my BIG hammer :).

Hi Alan ... Bill has mentioned about using CCleaner .. So i thought the Tutorial below would be useful ..


CCleaner - Delete Junk Files

Cool, that's good news (but now I have to take off my Thor costume too).

I think BD in Services is fine, it was the other ancillary BD startup items (wallet...) that don't need to be first and foremost.

re cCleaner: The most useful part of this is cleaning up files. I gave you a list of things to include when you run it. The Prefetch cleanup might give you some startup improvement as there were performance optimization events. Windows defrag works with Prefetch to organize programs for faster access - so if I didn't recommend defrag (I think I did) - add defrag to your task list.

Bill
.