Too many items on start-up??

Emily1234

Emily1234

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On one of my last posts a lot of you said I had too many items on start-up. My laptop is brand new and I guess most of this stuff has been there since day 1. Its an Acer Aspire 5630.
I ran msconfig and regedit as you all told me before and the pictures below show what I came up with. It doesnt take a long time for my laptop to start up but if you see anything I can move/disable can you advise me as I'd rather remove them if they are not needed at start-up. Also can you tell me how to do this properly so I dont wreck my laptop lol.

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/9579/startup2bi3.jpg
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http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/2824/startup1uq4.jpg

Thanks for all the help in the past and hopefully with this one.

Emily
 
I would disable all of them in msconfig except msnmsgr (MSN), bittorrent (only if you want the torrent running in the background) and there was a bluetooth thing in there too.

If you delete them with regedit you can't get them back and you'll have to manually recreate the entries. Msconfig isn't a fix but it's the next best thing as you can re-enable anything you didn't want to kill off :)
 
Jonny69 said:
I would disable all of them in msconfig except msnmsgr (MSN), bittorrent (only if you want the torrent running in the background) and there was a bluetooth thing in there too.

If you delete them with regedit you can't get them back and you'll have to manually recreate the entries. Msconfig isn't a fix but it's the next best thing as you can re-enable anything you didn't want to kill off :)
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Really? All of them? :O

Emily
 
Disabling all of them is probably not a good idea.

There seems to be a lot of Acer-related ones, which seems a bit shoddy. Understandable if they're useful programs that you need (i.e. energy saving stuff etc), but probably worth disabling if not. Have a look through the actual programs themselves and see (they're probably all sitting in the system tray - next to the clock).

You can disable the Adobe one, and Bitorrent and MSN if you don't want those on startup.

A good tip is to just google the name of the item itself and see what it says. You'll usually find a webpage with a decent description of what it does, which should allow you to decide whether you want to keep it or not.

That is a serious amount of startup programs though. My Dell has 12 (after me cleaning it out, of course). You seem to have nearly three times that.
 
I just disabled eveything apart from MSN and wow my laptop was started up so fast, but then I got this message:



I havent clicked on it yet as I dont know what to do..
 
TheVoice said:
Disabling all of them is probably not a good idea.

There seems to be a lot of Acer-related ones, which seems a bit shoddy. Understandable if they're useful programs that you need (i.e. energy saving stuff etc), but probably worth disabling if not. Have a look through the actual programs themselves and see (they're probably all sitting in the system tray - next to the clock).

You can disable the Adobe one, and Bitorrent and MSN if you don't want those on startup.

A good tip is to just google the name of the item itself and see what it says. You'll usually find a webpage with a decent description of what it does, which should allow you to decide whether you want to keep it or not.

That is a serious amount of startup programs though. My Dell has 12 (after me cleaning it out, of course). You seem to have nearly three times that.
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Thanks, I will have a look through and google them. Can it be dangerous to disable them all apart from MSN then?
 
Emily1234 said:
I just disabled eveything apart from MSN and wow my laptop was started up so fast, but then I got this message:



I havent clicked on it yet as I dont know what to do..
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Just tick the box and press ok, everytime you change anything in msconfig you get that, nothing to worry about.
 
Ok I've ticked the box..
All I've got enabled now is AVG and MSN an my laptop seems so much faster, it was never really that slow anyway but now it just seems megafast.

I've looked up some of the programs on google and well tbh it doesnt make much sense to me, but I suppose it wouldnt lol.

There doesnt seem to be any damage by me disabling everything and I hope nothing will go wrong, I trust you all :D

Do you suggest I do anything else now?

Emily
 
Your a plum if you disabled your AV, which from what you said sounds likely!!
Personally I think deleting from registry is better than running in config mode using the msconfig work-around.

The ONLY thing you really need starting up with your computer is your AV and possibly your firewall if you don't have the far better hardware option. Everything else can be loaded if and when needed rather than wasting clock cycles by running 24-7 in the background!!!
It really annoys me the way that these programs seem to think that their the most important thing on your computer and need to be running all the time :mad:

**EDIT** too slow! You kept your AV, your not a plum :p ;)
 
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M0t0r0la said:
Your a plum if you disabled your AV, which from what you said sounds likely!!
Personally I think deleting from registry is better than running in config mode using the msconfig work-around.

The ONLY thing you really need starting up with your computer is your AV and possibly your firewall if you don't have the far better hardware option. Everything else can be loaded if and when needed rather than wasting clock cycles by running 24-7 in the background!!!
It really annoys me the way that these programs seem to think that their the most important thing on your computer and need to be running all the time :mad:

**EDIT** too slow! You kept your AV, your not a plum :p ;)
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LOL thanks! but yes I kept my AVG. I only use windows firewall so that doesnt count does it?
 
The ONLY thing you really need starting up with your computer is your AV and possibly your firewall
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hang on though. i know what your saying but that is not totally true. it depends what you have installed and what you need.

i run copernic desktop search and that needs to start with windows so it always indexes. i have a logitech mouse and that needs to start with windows so the buttons work as they should (extra functions and all that). i have a keyboard with special keys and without the software starting with windows the keys wont work.

also, what if you have configured your screen with adobe gamma or something similar, so that your colour is properly managed. if you disable it in msconfig then your screen won't show the colours it should.

the best thing to do is google the exact file name, as another poster said (such as ThisFile.EXE) and see what it does and decide if you need it. you could try disabling it and see if you lose anything.

another thing that is really useful for this is you could download process explorer which will show you the same processes you would see in task manager, but you can right click them and select google and it will google search the name for you, which saves you having to type all these annoying process names.
 
Emily1234 said:
Oh it does :D
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Great isn't it. I HATE programs that run at the startup. On my PC at Uni I have my firewall and AV load up and that is it. Anything else like Winamp or MSN or uTorrent I can run myself thanks very much Mr Computer.
 
buachille said:
hang on though. i know what your saying but that is not totally true. it depends what you have installed and what you need.

i run copernic desktop search and that needs to start with windows so it always indexes. i have a logitech mouse and that needs to start with windows so the buttons work as they should (extra functions and all that). i have a keyboard with special keys and without the software starting with windows the keys wont work.

also, what if you have configured your screen with adobe gamma or something similar, so that your colour is properly managed. if you disable it in msconfig then your screen won't show the colours it should.

the best thing to do is google the exact file name, as another poster said (such as ThisFile.EXE) and see what it does and decide if you need it. you could try disabling it and see if you lose anything.

another thing that is really useful for this is you could download process explorer which will show you the same processes you would see in task manager, but you can right click them and select google and it will google search the name for you, which saves you having to type all these annoying process names.
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Everything seems fine, I dont have an external mouse or anything, i just use my touchpad, and my webcam is attached to my laptop.

There is one thing though, I have volume buttons on the side of my laptop/keypad, they dont work anymore :S but that has nothing to do with the disabling of programs as I noticed it yesterday and I hadnt actually done any kind of disabling untill today
 
that is great that your machine is still working fine. i just wanted to point out that you have to know what your disabling, but what the people on this thread have said is pretty much correct. tons of software wants to set itself to run on startup when it doesn't need to, but then again there are other programs that you will want running on startup.

the volume buttons that have stopped working will almost certainly have done so because you have disabled their software one way or another. maybe some of the stuff you did to get rid of the virus i see you had killed it.

you should go into the installation media for your computer and try to find the driver or exe file for the volume buttons.

if you post the exact model of your computer i, or someone else, should be able to find out what the file is called and where you can find it.

edit - i see you did post the model of your machine. i'll have a look
 
sorry but i am struggling. been on acer site but i can't find the driver for your volume buttons.

do you have an acer driver disk. if not maybe all the drivers and stuff are on a partition on your laptop. anyway, you need to find out where the software is (for the volume buttons) and reinstall it. maybe someone who has had an acer laptop like yours can help more.
 
buachille said:
that is great that your machine is still working fine. i just wanted to point out that you have to know what your disabling, but what the people on this thread have said is pretty much correct. tons of software wants to set itself to run on startup when it doesn't need to, but then again there are other programs that you will want running on startup.

the volume buttons that have stopped working will almost certainly have done so because you have disabled their software one way or another. maybe some of the stuff you did to get rid of the virus i see you had killed it.

you should go into the installation media for your computer and try to find the driver or exe file for the volume buttons.

if you post the exact model of your computer i, or someone else, should be able to find out what the file is called and where you can find it.

edit - i see you did post the model of your machine. i'll have a look
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I have enabled the programs I want/need and my laptop seems to be perfectly fine.
I couldnt find anything that looked like it was to do with my volume buttons :S

it says 'Acer Aspire 5630' on my actual laptop and model BL50 but the on the sticker it says the specs and 'Acer Aspire 5633WLMi'
 
buachille said:
sorry but i am struggling. been on acer site but i can't find the driver for your volume buttons.

do you have an acer driver disk. if not maybe all the drivers and stuff are on a partition on your laptop. anyway, you need to find out where the software is (for the volume buttons) and reinstall it. maybe someone who has had an acer laptop like yours can help more.
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Thanks for looking, I didnt get any disks with it but I did make the recovery disks when I first got it, however, they dont seem to work. I've posted this before (in my virus thread) but yes they dont autorun. I was told to try setting my cd/dvd drive to number 1 on the f2 settings list thing.. but that still didnt work.

I've looked through my acer folder and dont really see anyway that looks helpful towards getting my volume buttons back to working. I dont think they've stopped working beacuse of me disabling everything as they stopped working yesterday and I hadnt even opened msconfig then
 
i've been searching a bit more. do you have something called lauch manager? this could be the software you need.

check out this post.

anyway, if it is launch manager you need, although i'[m nor sure it is, i see it can be got from acers website for your laptop. you almost certainly have the original version somewhere (maybe on a partition or on a disc).

go here and click drivers and utilities, then click utitility downloads, then scroll down to

Notebook Manager
Please check the Download Section and select your Notebook.

then click your model in the top left area.

then in the top box that initially says driver, click the drop down and select launch manager and you should be able to start downloading it. once you've got it you should be able to install it and hopefully it will fix the problem, although it might not.

by the way i would have posted a direct link to the file but the way that website is setup stopped me doing it.

something else occurred to me. have you run windows update recently. sometimes if you have an outdated or missing driver windows update will pick it up and offer you the newer version. although sometimes not.
 
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