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DelJo63
I'm on a laptop and battery power is precious. The number of programs auto-started
whether system services or applications, consumes significant resources and
impedes the system responsiveness, especially durring boot time. My goal was
to reduce startup time and paging activity to a minimum so as to preserve as
much battery capacity as possible. The side effect of trimming of auto-starts
is a system that preforms well and actually reduces the number of 'infection-vectors'
(The path used to get malware on a system) that can be attacked.
My first pass was to trim unnecessary system service.
The System-services.txt attachment is an export from Services in tab
delimited format, which is best read in a tablular view
(eg: open with word, select all, tools->insert->table)
It is sorted on the Startup column to highlite what actions i've made.
Nicely, it also documents that while I asked for some MANUAL startups,
some of them are showing that the process is already STARTED! This
is the system reacting to a prerequisite program that was not auto-started.
Secondly, I want to to stop all auto-update programs and/or as many auto-started
applications as possible.
Using Spybot Search & Destroy, I found that I could
disable programs without fussing directly with the registry and if I made a mistake,
my actions were easiy reversed.
The Spybot.System.startup.report.txt attachment documents what I've done.
(apologies in that I know some entries were deleted and thus do not
showup in this list, eg: java-update was deleted from auto-start).
Items disable via Spybot S&D are marked (DISABLED)
I'm sure still more might be pruned from the system, but the current setup
is effective enough and I'm much better off than with the Win/XP configuration.
Best wishes to all.
Jeff
whether system services or applications, consumes significant resources and
impedes the system responsiveness, especially durring boot time. My goal was
to reduce startup time and paging activity to a minimum so as to preserve as
much battery capacity as possible. The side effect of trimming of auto-starts
is a system that preforms well and actually reduces the number of 'infection-vectors'
(The path used to get malware on a system) that can be attacked.
My first pass was to trim unnecessary system service.
The System-services.txt attachment is an export from Services in tab
delimited format, which is best read in a tablular view
(eg: open with word, select all, tools->insert->table)
It is sorted on the Startup column to highlite what actions i've made.
Nicely, it also documents that while I asked for some MANUAL startups,
some of them are showing that the process is already STARTED! This
is the system reacting to a prerequisite program that was not auto-started.
Secondly, I want to to stop all auto-update programs and/or as many auto-started
applications as possible.
Using Spybot Search & Destroy, I found that I could
disable programs without fussing directly with the registry and if I made a mistake,
my actions were easiy reversed.
The Spybot.System.startup.report.txt attachment documents what I've done.
(apologies in that I know some entries were deleted and thus do not
showup in this list, eg: java-update was deleted from auto-start).
Items disable via Spybot S&D are marked (DISABLED)
I'm sure still more might be pruned from the system, but the current setup
is effective enough and I'm much better off than with the Win/XP configuration.
Best wishes to all.
Jeff
