So you want to speed up your booting process, well here's
a tip for you to shut off those programs that start in your
system tray when you first turn on your computer.
There are a few reasons why you would want to do this:
- Speed
up your boot time
- The
system tray programs won't be running in the background
taking up your processor speed
- Don't
you just hate it when a program does that without your
permission, grrrr, I mean, really!
Here's the quickest and easiest way to shut off those
annoying programs. Here are the steps:
- Click
Start
- Go
to Run
- Type
in the box msconfig. It will open this Window.
- Click on the Startup tab at the top, this will show
a listing of programs that auto start when your computer
is first booted. If you uncheck the box the program
will no longer auto start and sit in your system tray
when you boot. You'll need to reboot before this
takes effect.
There are some programs that you definitely want to launch
when you launch your computer, like your Antivirus software,
you're firewall, and things like that. Programs
like MSN, Realplayer, and things like that, I would uncheck,
unless you really like those programs.
Another way to do this would be to go to the program
that is in your system tray and you can find the settings
to remove them from the auto start, most programs have
this listed in the properties section, just another way
you can do this. Right click and go to properties,
sometimes these setting are buried in the program, so
the way above is just a quicker way of doing it. |
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