Slow comp

[krimsonviper]

Need help and making my computer faster. I'm no where close to being knowledgable on computers, i just hook up and go, but lately the start up has been killing me. at the bottom right hand side of the screen is a bunch of programs that start up at the same time as the comp and I'm guessing that that's the reason why its sluggish. Can anyone tell me how to stop those programs? I want to start doing torrent dl's and I was wondering if you guys might be able to help me out with which sites to go to and which sites i should stay away from and how to install the torrent program(s).

[Warped161]

startup programs= Winpatrol it's freetorrents= utorrent also free

[albert_ey]

I was gonna do a write up on how to disable start up programs, but I found an ok write up on ehow. Click here to visit the page.

Make sure you don't disable your antivirus program. It'll be pretty obvious which one is your antivirus.

If you need any help, hit me up via email! I'll reply in no time.

Have a good one!

[krimsonviper]

will do when i finally have a day off. thanks fellas

[MinisterofDOOM]

You don't need to download any software to disable startup programs. Just go Start > run and type "msconfig" then go to the "startup" tab and un-select all the ones you don't need. A lot of times they aren't labeled clearly, but if you look at the details you can generally figure out what they are.

[krimsonviper]

thats what i was figuring, MoD. so i didnt actually do it yet. i was waiting for more input from people.

Is there anything that could be making the computer slow? It's mainly start up, but sometimes the computer hiccups and i have to wait awhile or restart a program like MS word, iTunes, or I.E (the main things i use).

[PoorManQ45]

Download CCleaner.

Install it. Run the temp cleaner.

Then click on Registry. Click analyze . Let it run, click fix issues, dont backup the registry.

Then click analyze again. Fix issues.

Repeat until all registry issues are gone.

Reboot.

And disable programs from startup.

If you want one of us, assuming you trusted us, could remote into your computer using a program like TeamViewer to help you out.

[240Knightrider]

Do exaclty what Minister of Doom said.

If difficultgo download spybot (google: spybot)then once loaded, go up to the top left Under MODE, click advanced, then more options will show up on the bottom left, go to TOOLSthen look for System Startup. You can choose from there.

A third option:From: http://www.Intelliadmin.comThe prefetch cache

The first tip I want to talk about is the windows prefetch. Windows XP has this feature that loads commonly used programs - at boot time.

Here is how it works: Yesterday you used MS Word, and Duke Nukem 3D. Today you boot your system to check e-mail. It sees parts of these two programs in the prefetch folder and loads them into memory before windows completes the boot process. The benefit is faster application launch times. If you really wanted to use MS Word, it would pop up really quick when you double clicked on it.

The problem is most people have been running windows for years, and the prefetch gets clogged with stuff that you almost never use. Windows takes forever to boot because it is prefetching a 1.0 copy of Napster, and you just want to check your email before you have to go to work.

What can be done about it? Well there are a few things we can do to tweak the prefetch cache. One method is to disable it partially, and this can be done quite easily.

Simply browse to the windows folder (Ex: C:\Windows) and under there you should see the prefetch folder. Go into the prefetch folder and delete all the files