In the bottom fight hand corner of your screen is a thing called the System Tray. It gives you icons of some of the small applications that start when Windows starts, well those that want to declare themselves anyway. Have a look, and if you`ve got more than five or six.......its too many.
I was doing some research yesterday, and I downloaded a couple of small innocent programs from reputable sites and they ran well enough, did their job and I thought I might use them again so left them on my home laptop. When the machine restarted it hung, was slow, jerky mouse etc.
PANIC!!! Me, a computer expert with viruses? Turns out not, these little programs inserted another few little startup applets which either interfered with something else, or just plain confused my poor PC. Many scans later, and a trip to Start/run/msconfig/startup tab later, I foundand took off the culprits. OK here comes the rant......
WHY do software writers continue to put in these stupid little startup applets WITHOUT EVEN ASKING ? I wouldnt mind if they actually did something! Even F****** MS Office puts in a quick start which does bugger-all. Add up the memory used in ten little startup programs (not even counting the extra time it takes to load them on startup) and its enough to drag your computer back into the nineties.
So the moral is , check regularly, and stop the rot of wasted startup apps. Nuff said.
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