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c_brookhart
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February 16th, 2005 08:00
windows startup question
When I turned my Dell on for the first time, it booted up quickly to the desktop and was ready to use in about 2 minutes. Now when I turn the computer on, it boots quickly to the desktop but then I have to wait at least 5 minutes before I can do anything at all (i.e. click the start button, open IE, open outlook, etc.). I know that the Norton Anti-Virus automatic update was partly to blame for the delayed start. I turned off the automatic update and now just run the update program every couple of days. I'm guessing that now the problem lies with the numerous background processes that are running (43 total). I tried to disable some of them through services.misc, but windows didn't like that. Is there anything that can be done so that I can get my computer back to the startup speeds I experienced the first time I used it?
c_brookhart
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Posted February 16th, 2005 16:00
I have Spybot and Ad-Aware installed.
I have about 10 program icons in the system tray. One program in particular that I have tried to prevent from starting up is messenger. Each time I uncheck it from the startup through msconfig, it keeps coming back.
- You mean Windows Messenger? You have to disable that by double clicking the icon,
and if I remember correctly, you go to tools--options, and uncheck "run messenger when Windows starts"..
If you use Outlook express, there is a way to disable messenger that way, too.
But if you do not use messenger, close the program, go ADD/Remove, ADD/Remove Windows components, uncheck messenger, next.
I don't remember the other steps, because I just remove messenger, I don't use it. c_brookhart
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Posted February 17th, 2005 04:00
If I right click on the icon and select exit, the messenger program won't close. I always get a message stating that messenger can't close because there is another program that is using that application. I don't know what other application could be using messenger---outlook possibly? I get that message even when outlook and outlook express are closed. The messenger service is stopped in services.misc and is unchecked from msconfig but yet it starts when the computer starts. How can that be?- Did you try opening messenger, and selecting tools-options--and uncheck "Start with Windows"? Then reboot.
The messenger in services.msc is not the same as Windows Messenger.
You want that the one in services.msc disabled to keep from getting messenger service spam.
You could try removing Windows Messenger from add/remove , add/remove Windows components, and uncheck "Windows Messenger" in SAFE MODE.
Reboot computer, while tapping the F8 key on you keyboard.
Use the up and down arrows to choose "Safe Mode" (forget safe mode with command prompt, or networking)
Once you are in safe mode, hopefully you can remove Windows Messenger.
Or go to C:\Program Files\messenger and delete, or rename messenger. I would just rename it to, "messenger2". Then it cannot start, because Windows won't be able to open "messenger2" (don't use quotes)
msil217
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Posted February 16th, 2005 09:00
How mant programs do you have in your system tray? You can eliminate some unnecessary processes at startup.
Also scan for spyware and trojans.