What most computer tech’s do to speed up a computer, and make a happy customer.
Almost every computer user suffers from having a slow computer. Whether is a home user or a office user, the problem is usually the same.
There are different ways a computer can get slow. One reason is time, as a computer gets old, the hardware in it tends to get old too. with today’s OS (operating systems windows XP, vista, 7) a computer that was bought 5 years ago, might not be as power full as a computer that was bought 1 year ago or last week. So hardware is one factor to a slow computer.
The main cause of slow computer issues is ‘too many programs running in the background’.
When a computer takes a long time to start, is because all those background programs are starting up.
Programs running in the background
One way that we can see how many programs are running in the background is by going to the task manager.
In the task manager you can see all the programs that are running in the background, and the ones that we ask the computer to run.
We can stop programs from running by simply right click the program and select end process.
Removing programs from the task manager sometimes will help you pc, but when the computer is restarted those programs will came back and the computer will be the way it was before.
Using the msconfig menu
the Microsoft Configuration Utility or also known as the msconfig menu, lists all the programs that windows has to run when the computer starts.
By clicking the start menu and selecting run.
In the Run dialog box enter ‘msconfig’
The System Configuration Utility box should come up.
Here in the startup tab we can see the list of programs that windows starts every time the computer is turned on.
A check in the box means that the program is going to start when the computer starts.
Unchecking the box next to the program that we don’t want, will make the program not start next time the computer restarts,
Here we can easily remove programs that we don’t want to have loaded when the computer starts.
Warning: make sure to uncheck programs that you are sure you don’t need, removing programs that are needed by windows could damage your system! we are not responsible for any damages.
Using this method one can quickly gain more processing power from our pc’s.
In the msconfig menu we are going to find programs that don’t make sense, or don’t have a name, like the two in the picture that don’t have names.
We can safely uncheck this entry because they are not connected to any programs.
This unnamed entry are leftovers from programs that got uninstalled and the uninstaller didn’t remove the msconfig menu entry.
sam
