Opening Files upon startup

bbudesa

bbudesa

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I'm learning every day, but I reckon I'm still a greenhorn compared to most on this forum.

That being said, I've read so many times "remove all files not needed or necessary from your startup." I still don't know what is considered by most to be important to have open at startup.

It might be more useful to find out what most of you consider important or imperative to have in your startup file, not what shouldn't be there. For me (tell me if I'm wrong), the most important program to have start at startup is Avast. Other than that, my Windows files.

All the rest, I 'uncheck'. Yes? No?

thanks,

Bob
 
All depends on the system and user. Basically any driver software for video, your Antivirus software, printer utility possibly. You shouldn't have more than about 5 programs running at bootup for system performance. But of course if you have an SSD drive and 16gb of ram then you won't notice much performance decrease from too many programs running.
 
You could also use Autoruns and see what is starting up, but you may have to google what the entries are if you're not sure otherwise you can damage your OS.

Also, go into the control panel | Performance Information and Tools | Advanced Tools and it may say what you can do to increase performance.
 
Thanks Agent Smith

After a little testing, I came up with a score of:

processor - 6.7
Mem (RAM) - 7.4
Graphics - 4.6
Gaming Graphics - 5.4
Primary HD - 5.9

I don't play games, so those figures mean little to me. Not sure if this scoring means much or is very accurate, but it's worth keeping track of, I suppose.
 
bbudesa said:
Thanks Agent Smith

After a little testing, I came up with a score of:

processor - 6.7
Mem (RAM) - 7.4
Graphics - 4.6
Gaming Graphics - 5.4
Primary HD - 5.9

I don't play games, so those figures mean little to me. Not sure if this scoring means much or is very accurate, but it's worth keeping track of, I suppose.
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If you went to control panel | Performance Information and Tools | Advanced Tools you should see this.


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See on the top that Windows is telling me that I should turn off my pretty GUI. I could use classic, but that is just fugly. I did once have a dll that Windows told me was causing my boot up to slow down. I have since removed that dll. It was from the VPN PIA if I remember correctly. I don't use PIA anymore, I use something else.
 
Okedokey - thanks mate. I reckon you're right.....one of these days.

Agent - Didn't take your original directions deep enough. Lots of diagnostics there to look into. thanks mate.
 
bbudesa said:
Okedokey - thanks mate. I reckon you're right.....one of these days.

Agent - Didn't take your original directions deep enough. Lots of diagnostics there to look into. thanks mate.
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See where it says performance issues at the top in my image? That's all you need to worry about. If something is slowing your boot up down windows will ID it. That will be displayed on top there.
 
Following the advice given in this thread, I believe my machine is now running as efficiently and as effectively as I can expect.

I'll keep all this info in mind, and look to further my skills by staying in touch with this forum.

thanks again all,

Bob
 
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