I've used autoruns for years now as it's the only application I know that seems to show everything but it is a little intimidating for those without a bit of experience - worthwhile having available for anyone who wants to know what's really going on in the box
Autoruns for Windows
I did use a start-up delayer with XP and Vista for a while as it enabled me to get to a working desktop a bit quicker - rather than the normal free for all with all the start-up processes fighting for cycles.
With win7 there doesn't seem to be the "bottleneck"there used to be
I found, on my system, Soluto causes Windows Explorer to be very unstable. Explorer itself restarts time after time. Nothing destructive happens, but it is a monumental pain.
By process of elimination, after a cold boot, I found it was Soluto causing it. After I removed the program, the problem went away.
My system is a "roll your own" homebuilt. The salient points: Biostar MoBo with an Intel 775 Core 2 Duo 2.2 CPU, an Nvidia 8400 1GB GPU vid board by Gforce, 3GB memory, 2TB on four HHD, Windows 7 Ultimate.
I do a lot of conversion and burning of video, We're really into old movies. By "old" I mean 1930's and 40's which are contemporary to us (I'm 79). This rig is cobbled, I know, but it does what I want.
First, I'm also a big fan of old movies, so I'm personally hurt by this problem. The symptoms you describe are very bothering, would you by any chance be willing to spare a few minutes and help us find out what's causing this? I would greatly appreciate it if you would drop us a note at support[at]soluto[dot]com and mention this thread. To paraphrase, I hope this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Sorry and thank you,
Roee Adler
Soluto
not a computer geek so not up on all the technical bits a bobs, just a silver surfer who is really ok and comfortable with a computer. Been using Soluto for a while. Agree that is probably no better than doing it yourself manually but for someone who may be a little afraid of screwing up something that is already working ok i think it serves a purpose. Doesn't seem to do any harm so that;s ok.
Disappointed with the new version. Thought the "Tidy up your web Browser" bit (whatever that's called) might be good but it doesn't show mine. What I mean is my default browser is Google Chrome but Soluto is only showing IE and Firefox. Odd unless I've got a setting wrong somewhere.
it may be a programme that eventually becomes quite useful so lets wait and see.
Iv'e got the reverse problem. It sees Chrome which is my default browser but not Firefox or IE which I use occasionally. I just installed it today so maybe it will take some time to find the others. After configuring the boot options it has done a bit more than I did manually so the jury is still out on this.
I found the other browsers they were hiding off to the side.
Last edited by kado897; 21 Jul 2011 at 13:14. Reason: Edit
i second autoruns (part of the sysinternals suite) soluto tried it failed it crashed to much for me.
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