Pc Advice please!

[Guest Miss T]

Hey I was wandering if anyoen could help me!

 

Is there anywya you can view and alter what programs start automatically at startup, I have annoying programs that pop-up when i switch on, how do i turn these on?!!?

 

 

Thanks :)

[Guest Inno]

START > All Programs > Startup

 

have a look what's in there. Anything that starts up generally comes from there OR has an option to not start when windows is loaded. Look at what's running in the bottom right of the screen and right click the icons looking for any options or preference menus.

 

Course, I could be horribly wrong...

[Guest Miss T]

Sorry, what is OR?

[Guest Slim Jim]

There is a thing in Windows that lets you disable them (The startup thing in the start menu is rubbish), but I can't remember how to get to it.

 

Google "Autostart and process viewer", a program I've got installed and is quite handy.

[Guest Feenix]

There is a thing in Windows that lets you disable them (The startup thing in the start menu is rubbish)' date=' but I can't remember how to get to it.[/quote']

 

That would be this, click Start > Run and type in "msconfig". go to the Startup tab and that'll show you everything that runs on startup. Uncheck a box and that thing wont run on startup anymore. DO NOT uncheck anything you're not absolutely sure about. Doing so might cause all sorts of problems. If you don't feel comfortable changing these settings then dont.

[Guest Inno]

Sorry' date=' what is OR?[/quote']

 

the word 'or' in capitals. No, seriously, that's what I meant!

[Guest Andrew_D]

Feenix is spot on. Can speed up startup like you can't imagine.

[Guest Miss T]

Thanks alot guys!! What is a runDLL32??! I also assume that anything with system32 shouldnt be touched?!

[ViciousPrism 177]

Yeah, it'll be hell to touch that file, since I believe [going by name], it runs major dll files that run most if not all of the stuff on your computer.

[Guest Andrew_D]

I don't have anything from system32 loading on startup. Not by choice it's just theres nothing there. But yeh, wouldn't wanna mess about with stuff like that unless you know exactly what it is.

 

Do popups appear when you start the pc? Probably spyware if it does.

[ViciousPrism 177]

If you think it is spyware, you should go to http://filehippo.com/ and download Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad Aware to get rid of the annoying little buggers. :)