Start-up time

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Hi everyone! Starting up of our pc’s takes long, too long.
Are you aware of free software to speed up starting up?
Which “set-up” you suggest?
Windows Vista.

Replies are welcome, thanks in advance!

Best regards, Hermie

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There are some that find Soluto as a good tool for analyzing and fixing startup delays.
It isn’t a tool I personaly use.

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Disabling a number of unnecessary startup programs won’t hurt. Press Windows key+R then type in msconfig. Press the Startup tab and untick those that you think is unnecessary. You may check here the entries that you are unsure of.

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I use this on my system - The windows performance toolkit, http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/146919-install-the-windows-performance-tools-kit/
And I use xbootmgr to speed it up http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140262-how-to-speed-up-boot-process-under-windows-vista-or-windows-7/

It will take an hour (approx) to run but I have found it beneficial on my 7 system

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http://media.askvg.com/articles/images2/Microsoft_Fixit_Logo.png

Microsoft has released a Fixit to automatically diagnose and fix causes of poor system performance,
such as the power saver setting, multiple anti-virus programs running, multiple startup programs running,
and too many users logged on to the computer.
Download Link

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Thanks guys for your replies.
I’ll do a scan with www.scancircle.com.
Will check in this forum later and keep you informed.

Regards, Hermie

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I did a scan with scancircle.
Advice: Uncheck process of missing startup executable HWSetup.
Windows Defender is still active. (I too have Avast Free aboard)

Can I follow up the advice? What you think? What is HWSetup?

Replies are welcome, thanks in advance.

Best regards, Hermie

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Disable Defender as avast has already got you covered there.

HWSetup can safely be disabled http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/startups/HWSetup.exe-17224.html

CCleaner if installed will give you some more detailed information as to what startups you have and if you attach a pic we maybe able to see what else you have there to be safely disabled.

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Thanks for reply. How to disable Windows Defender?

I have disabled HWSetup and Dropbox.

Thanks for replies, Hermie

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Morning everyone.
I have disabled Windows Defender.
Avast Free does the work (protection) for me.

Thanks for your help/replies!

Kind regards, Hermie

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NP’s Hermie, glad you found how to disable defender :slight_smile: