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Re: Startup Apps for Laptop Loopers - streamline performance, etc



Although an early user of Norton's utilities - as well as McAfee, who was first out of the gate in the A/V arena - I found that, over the years, both packages have become quite aggressive in the battle for my processors and RAM, to the extent that I always request they NOT be included in the PC packages my clients get.
 
A better value is found in V-com's Fix-It Pro 7 suite, not a lot of cash, and one gets three licenses per purchase, despite it being under $50.  The A/V is Trend's in the suite, and it's well-mannered.  I can record without taking it out of the startup, and if I do both sound and audio I can halt parts or all of the checking without restarting.  I bought it for my own setup here (three PCs and a Laptop), and recommended it to my parents, and siblings' families.  My PC clients have it on recommendation.  No complaints in over four years of implementations.  v-com.com sells it direct.
 
Big culprit on the Hogging the Startup Department - Hewlett-Packard's drivers are fine, but those #$* utilities programs as well as the badly-mannered, malfunctioning update module are worth unchecking in the Startup section.
 
By the way, rather than going through MSCONFIG one might use the better-functionality of the Tools section of Spybot S&D, which can be got for free at http://www.spybot.info/ - though this guy deserves the money for having pioneered awareness and prevention-elimination of Spyware/Adware alone.
----- Original Message -----
From: miles ward
Sent: Thursday, 11 October, 2007 17:57 PM
Subject: 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




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---Miles Ward