Comments on: Tech notes: how to speed up your computer (2)

By: SYZYGYsupport

SYZYGYsupport — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:18:50 +0000

Great hear Tony!

By: Tony Waghorn

Tony Waghorn — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:16:37 +0000

I'm sold on Soluto, it doesn't fix everything, but a simple 80-90% solve is better than a really geeky hard 95% one.

By: Tony Waghorn

Tony Waghorn — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:00:17 +0000

I like that soluto a lot. It will be a great thing to suggest to our Home Assignees.

Can you add it into you main post so people can see it.

Tony.

By: adamswbrown

adamswbrown — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:11:10 +0000

Hi there Tony,

The Services and Startup section of msconfig isn't that dangerous. So you should be fine.

On the subject of Software PC speed up tips, vie stumbled on a program called Soluto. This software analyses your PC startup routine and produces a report telling you what you can delete/remove. In fact, it will even do it for you! I would recommend giving it a go. Get it from http://soluto.com.

By: Tony Waghorn

Tony Waghorn — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:47:13 +0000

Would you advise people to go to Start Menu > Run > “msconfig” and then Services and Startup tabs? Or is that liable to end in tears?

This is where I find a lot of free software dumping things that run on startup (like cameras, iTunes, scanners).
It's all those little things that run in the tray in the bottom right corner ————————-(down here)———————————————V.
Again, check the list with Google, but uncheck those you don't need to run, or run on startup and you should see your computer take less time to fire up.

Most of these 'process' either monitor things (like plugging in you camera – which windows will do anyway) or speed up the programme starting up (so you can choose – faster machine startup, or slower application start).

Tony.