Startup Programs - Comments Page 1

A good site to find startup programs if you need 'em or not is www.answersthatwork.com

check it out !

What I get the MOST annoyed with is that I disable the quicktime from starting up and then when I start my computer again it magically starts up too. Anything I can do about this without just uninstalling quicktime?

I have been using Startup Control Panel 2.8 by Mike Lin along with his little watchdog program, Startup Monitor for about three weeks now, and I think you couldn't do better for any money. These programs are free, donations accepted, at http://www.mlin.net/
Now I start four programs at power-up and the Startup Monitor has caught a half-dozen attempts to change that in the short time I have been using it. Hope this enhances the discussion. ~Charlie

Two other free utilities from Sysinternals are Autoruns and Process Explorer. Autoruns shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. Process Explorer is divided into two informational panels. The top panel shows a list of currently active (open) processes while the bottom panel shows relevant information depending on what mode Process Explorer is set up in.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx >Autoruns

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx >Process Explorer

For me, the best part of both utilities is they don't have to be installed. They can be run in your browser.

Nothing mind boggling, but as an old PC user I use the old Ctl - Alt - Del keys to bring up the Task Manager. Have used it for so many years that it is almost second nature to use it. That is, even though it no longer does what it originally did on older versions of Windows.

The Sysinternals (now Microsoft) program Autoruns for Windows v9.55 is a mighty powerful and thorough way to see what auto-starts on a Windows PC. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx . The latest version came out 2009-10-01, so most people haven't played with it yet.

I cannot speak highly enough about Bill Pytlovany's WinPatrol. It does everything you talk about above and does it well. There is a free version, but if you subscribe to WinPatrol Plus you can get additional information on any program with a few mouse clicks. Great job, Bill!

Great info.

Thanks

Another program that I find helpful in stopping certain programs from loading when XP starts up is jv16 PowerTools 2009 which has a Startup Manager where you can either just stop the program from loading or delete it entirely.

For Michelle who dislikes QuickTime as much as I do, have you tried the free QuickTime Alternative? Available from http://tinyurl.com/ygfu666 , be sure to choose the second or third download link. Do not choose "Download QT Lite," or you won't get the Media Player Classic that you will need for some formats.

I found that it was better to leave the regular QuickTime program installed, but disabled, and use the QuickTime Alternative, rather than uninstalling QuickTime altogether. The Alternative program will not persistently run in your system tray.

As an aside, there is also a free Real Alternative available from the makers of the above program, which is available at http://tinyurl.com/yhbqvag .

Just so people feel safe with the tinyurls, the domain name of the sites is free-codecs.com, should you want to go that route and find the programs yourself.

I usually disable anything from Apple - I have an iPod but I don't connect it to my computer more than once a week. Open Office quickstart - so what if it takes a few seconds longer to load - you those few seconds on Windows start up if it's left enabled.I agree with Bob on Foxit but I have to have Adobe installed for the very rare occasions that I get a PDF that Foxit can't open. (Note: To access task manager on XP through WIndows 7 just hit ctrl-shift-esc)

First Off Bob Thanks For Your Great Site!
Michelle There is a Quick time Lite Version Just Google it.. Softpedia.com has it and their site is safe!
Thanks For all the Info Everybody!
Question A Guy on the net Says! In the Start up utility to disable everything Except Protection Programs Under Boot/Services check hide all Microsoft services and uncheck the others and on the advanced Boot tab Check No GUI Boot+ Select# of Processors and Memory Amount. is this Nonsense? For a Safe Boot? it Does Speedup your Startup and Shut Down

Thank you, Bob! I will try your suggestions re: Vista OS speed up! Many thanks to your readers also for their input and suggestions!

Have tried to download wither/or Start Up inSpetor and Start Up Monitor with no success ...

When I click the links to download, I'm just returned to an image of the screenshot and nothing more ...

Thanks

Re: Diana's comment on trusting tinyurl's

The tinyurl has a preview feature in case you want to know where you are going before you go to it.

All you need to do is to add preview at the beginning of the link.

Example: http://preview.tinyurl.com/56t9u

For other links (or for checking on what is returned by "preview") you can use the McAfee site advisor program. This is a free program from Mcafee that you download to your browser and it will give you a green, yellow or red check mark next to any sites in Google.

To use this feature you can type the link into google's search box and it will show its opinion of the site before you go there.

JD

I guess these sorts of utilities are a dime-a-dozen, but I'm fond of Mike Lin's "Startup Control Panel", http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

It installs into the Control Panel (duh...), and provides an easy-to-use view of all of the places where things get started from, and what is currently started from each. The "Startup" folders (there are two), HKey-Local-Machine, HKey-Current-User, and the run-once-then-delete stuff.

It's easy to selectively disable individual items and, if things don't work on reboot, just as easy to reenable them.

-jp

Try Soluto for controlling start-up programs.

bob! Many thanks. I shall try your suggestions. My site: http://www.addictinggames9.com/

you may want to eliminate the link for start up inspector because it does not work & got me a bug in the pc.

Bob Process Library says csrss.exe is a Trojan Microsoft says its necessary for windows to run. How reliable is this Process library you recommend? Can you shed some light on this file? My task manager process shows it with nothing under user name or description and when I right click and get a drop box and select location of file or properties nothing happens. Is this normal?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Although csrss.exe is a legitimate Windows file, there are viruses that masquerade with the same name. If your antivirus tool doesn't flag it, you should be fine.