|
|
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Startup Apps for Laptop Loopers - streamline performance, etc
Another key item there is just how much of a hog the norton applications are, and how hard it is to properly contain their impact on performance of your machine. I'd recommend Nod32.
On 10/11/07, Krispen Hartung <khartung@cableone.net> wrote:
>> Some of us, including myself in the past, have used msconfig (you just >> run this from Start and Run). You can deselect any of these and prevent >> them from running at startup. However, I recently read in some tech
>> forums that msconfig is recommended primarily for testing, >> troubleshooting, etc...not as a permanent solution to altering your >> startup process. The claim is that this is not an efficient way to end
>> the processes and does so incompletely. > > Actually, it prevents the processes from ever being started. > Perhaps what they meant was that it didn't catch every single process > that could start (which I think may be the case).
Yes, that is obviously what it does, as indicated by the processes not appearing at re-boot
> Surely you can do an MSCONFIG setup, and then either use it or not. > At least that gives you 2 different startup configs.
> ( with a choice on startup )
Yes, but once you go back to your standard startup and reboot, and then want to go back to your performance configuration, you have to re-deselect the processes again and reboot. You cannot save the msconfig configuration.
But, more importantly, the articles are not recommending msconfig as the approprieate way to do this. As I said, it is recommended as a way to troubleshoot, etc, not as a permament startup configuration solution. I
don't have the articles on hand, but you could Google the topic and find them.
Kris
-- ---Miles Ward
|
|